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The Fall Out of Redemption - Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy (Hardcover)
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The Fall Out of Redemption - Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy (Hardcover)
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Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists
who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework
from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of
salvation from their considerations. Acquisto claims that
Baudelaire inaugurates a new kind of amodern modernity by canceling
the notion of salvation in his writing while also refusing to
embrace any of its secular equivalents, such as historical progress
or redemption through art. Through a series of "interhistorical"
readings that put literary and critical writers from the last 150
years in dialogue, Acquisto shows how these authors struggle to
articulate both the metaphysical and esthetic consequences of
attempting to move beyond a logic of salvation. Putting these
writers into dialogue with Baudelaire highlights the way both
literary and critical approaches attempt to articulate a third
option between theism and atheism that also steers clear of
political utopianism and Nietzschean estheticism. In the concluding
section, Acquisto expands metaphysical and esthetic concerns to
account also for the ethics inherent in the refusal of the logic of
salvation, an ethics which emerges from, rather than seeking to
redeem or cancel, a certain kind of nihilism.
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