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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.

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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

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"Evocative and weighty, this is not so much a book about poetry for philosophers as it is a book about philosophy for readers well acquainted with canonical French poetry." - CHOICE

"Acquisto´s very useful collection helps us better appreciate the precedents behind a form of analysis that gave rise to what structuralists and poststructuralists called ´reader-response´ criticism. Such criticism invites, indeed forces, readers of modern poems, including their authors, to think long and hard both about what they express as well as what they do." - Nineteenth-Century French Studies

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Joseph Acquisto is an associate professor of French at the Univeristy of Vermont.

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