Reading Baudelaire with Adorno: Dissonance, Subjectivity, Transcendence

Joseph Acquisto is Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France (2021), Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance (Bloomsbury, 2019), Proust, Music, and Meaning: Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche (2017), The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy (Bloomsbury, 2015), and French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music(2006).