Thinking Poetry

This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come.

Introduction; J. Acquisto Baudelaire through Kierkegaard: Art, Fallibility, and Faith; E. Kaplan Passages through Baudelaire from Poetry to Thought and Back; C. Witt Otherwise than Being: Levinassian Ethics in Victor Hugo's 'La Force des Choses,'; B. Stephens 'Je est un autre': Identity, Alterity, and Drug Use in Baudelaire and DeQuincey; A. Toumayan 'Poésie-boucherie': Baudelaire's Aesthetics and Ethics of Execution; E. Morisi Absolutely Absolute: Mallarmé, Blanchot, and the Absence de livre; J. McKeane Blank Phenomenality; C. Chi-ah Lyu Mallarmé's Tragico-Poetic Modernism; E. F. de Rosnay Mallarmé and the Ontologization of the Poem; D. N. Smith Poetic Form and the Crisis of Community: Revisiting Rancière's Aesthetics; A. James Baudelaire with Badiou: Event and Subjectivity in 'L'Héautontimorouménos,'; J. Acquisto 'Mesure parfaite et réinventée': Edouard Glissant Reinvents 19th-century French Poetry; H. Azerad