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Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics
Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre
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Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics
Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre
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Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, Walter Benjamin, and Jean-Paul Sartre over their philosophical readings of Charles Baudelaire, an exchange preempted by the untimely deaths of two of the interlocutors during the Nazi holocaust. Why did three of Europe's sharpest minds respond to the terror of 1933-45 by writing about a long-dead poet? Aaron Brice Cummings argues that Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre turned to the poet of nihilism's abyss because they recognized a fact of cultural history that remains relevant today: until sometime in the 2080s, the literary world will have to confront (even if to deny) the two-century window forecast by Nietzsche as the age of cultural and existential nihilism. Accordingly, the author examines the bitter metaphysics latent in Baudelaire's motifs of the abyss, clocks, brutes, streets, and bored dandies. In so doing, this book confronts the nothingness which modern life encounters in the heart of art, ethics, ideality, time, memory, history, urban life, and religion.
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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Abbreviations in Citations
- Chapter 1: Baudelaire the Moralist
- Chapter 2: Nietzscheās Problem of Socrates, or the Abyss of Absurdity
- Chapter 3: Three Experiences of the Abyss: Fondane, Benjamin, Sartre
- Chapter 4: āLe Gouffreā from Pascal to Baudelaire
- Chapter 5: Geometric versus Poetic Method, or Baudelaire versus Descartes
- Chapter 6: Fondane and Sartre Listen to the Objections of the Abyss
- Chapter 7: Cultural Nihilism: The Transvaluation of Experience
- Chapter 8: Of Turtles, Dogs, and Dandies: Metaphors for Splenetic, Poetic Trauma
- Chapter 9: Existential Failure: From Kierkegaard to Baudelaire
- Chapter 10: Restoring Memory to Experience: From Baudelaire to Bergson
- Chapter 11: Repetition and Recurrence: The Meaning of a Moment
- Chapter 12: Materialities of Urban Nihilism in Baudelaireās Paris
- Chapter 13: Ennui: The Religious Experience of Modernity
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author