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Reading Baudelaire with Adorno examines Baudelaires oeuvre in dialogue with Adornos aesthetic theory, arguing that the autonomy of the artwork resists attempts to view it as a product of its socio-historic context. Joseph Acquisto analyzes Baudelairean duality through the lens of dissonance, suggesting that the figure of the subject as a “dissonant chord” provides a gateway to Baudelaires reconfiguration of subjectivity and objectivity. This new understanding of subjectivity reconfigures our relationship to the work of art, which will always surpass conceptual attempts to know it fully.
Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Reading Baudelaire with Adorno examines Charles Baudelaires oeuvre – including verse poems, prose poems, and critical writings – in dialogue with the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno, for whom the autonomy of the artwork critically resists any attempt to view it merely as a product of its socio-historic context. Joseph Acquisto analyzes Baudelairean duality through the lens of dissonance, arguing that the figure of the subject as a “dissonant chord” provides a gateway to Baudelaires reconfiguration of subjectivity and objectivity in both esthetic and epistemological terms. He argues that Baudelaires dissonance depends on older models of subjectivity in order to define itself via the negation of romantic conceptions of a unified lyric subject in favor of one constituted simultaneously as subject and object. This new understanding of subjectivity reconfigures our relationship to the work of art, which will always surpass conceptual attempts to know it fully. Acquisto offers a fresh take on some familiar themes in Baudelaires work. Dissonant subjectivity in Baudelaire, rather than cancelling esthetic transcendence, points to a different way forward that depends on a new and dialectical relation of subject and object.
Weight: 450g
Dimension: 159 x 237 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9798765103005
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