Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature

Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Rancière

AvRobert Boncardo

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Robert Boncardo investigates how Stéphane Mallarmé, 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 Rancière, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, he situates Mallarmé within the philosophical and political projects of some of France’s greatest thinkers.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-07
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:405 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Crosscurrents
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474429535

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Robert Boncardo is Sessional Tutor in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. He completed his doctorate in French Studies at the University of Sydney and Aix-Marseille Université.

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The name Mallarmé has become a tool for the praise and condemnation of poetry. In French philosophy, he is associated with the intoxicating idea of poetry as politically efficacious, and the counter-charge of effete elitism. In this lively and impressive re-telling, we see how this poet becomes a magnet for a stunning cascade of delirious praise and vilification. Robert Boncardo convincingly shows that despite the insights of the French obsession with Mallarmé, we need new ways to formulate the links between politics and literature.

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AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsSeries Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: Comrade MallarméJean-Paul Sartre’s Mallarmé: Hero of an Ontological Drama, Agent of the Counter-revolutionJulia Kristeva’s Mallarmé: From Fetishism to the Theatre-BookAlain Badiou’s Mallarmé: From the Structural Dialectic to the Poetry of the EventJean-Claude Milner’s Mallarmé: Nothing Has Taken PlaceJacques Rancière’s Mallarmé: Deferring EqualityConclusion: From One Siren to AnotherBibliographyIndex