Joseph Acquisto

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...See more

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). See less