Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Why is Stephane Mallarme, one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, so important to French philosophers? With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo situates Mallarme within these thinkers' philosophical and political projects.
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With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo asks how St (c)phane Mallarm (c) became so politically significant for left-wing French intellectuals.
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Recounts the radical readings of Mallarm 's seminal poems by some of France's most important 20th century thinkers
Why is St phane Mallarm , one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, so important to French philosophers? With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranci re, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo situates Mallarm within these thinkers' philosophical and political projects.
Key Features
- Explains different thinkers' distinct approaches to Mallarm 's poetry and prose, in particular to their political significance
- Reflects on the various ways literature has been conceived of politically by French thinkers
- The first work of English-language scholarship on each of these thinker's reading of Mallarm and the first work to read each of these thinkers in tandem, locating their points of contact and difference
Synopsis
Robert Boncardo investigates how St phane Mallarm , one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, became an object of major political significance for French intellectuals. He asks how this most refined and seemingly aristocratic of poets became the writer of choice for leftist intellectuals and reflects on the ambivalent relation between literature and its political destiny in modernity.
With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranci re, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, he situates Mallarm within the philosophical and political projects of some of France's greatest thinkers.