Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature

Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Rancière

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Robert Boncardo, Robert (Australian Catholic University.) Boncardo

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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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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-07
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt405 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCrosscurrents
Antal sidor288
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474429535

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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

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.