Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature : : Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Rancière / / Robert Boncardo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Boncardo, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Crosscurrents : CROSS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Recounts the radical readings of Mallarmé’s seminal poems by some of France’s most important 20th century thinkersWhy is Stéphane Mallarmé, 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 Rancière, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo situates Mallarmé within these thinkers' philosophical and political projects.Key FeaturesExplains different thinkers' distinct approaches to Mallarmé’s poetry and prose, in particular to their political significanceReflects on the various ways literature has been conceived of politically by French thinkersThe first work of English-language scholarship on each of these thinker’s reading of Mallarmé and the first work to read each of these thinkers in tandem, locating their points of contact and difference

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: Comrade Mallarmé -- 1. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Mallarmé: Hero of an Ontological Drama, Agent of the Counter-revolution -- 2. Julia Kristeva’s Mallarmé: From Fetishism to the Theatre-Book -- 3. Alain Badiou’s Mallarmé: From the Structural Dialectic to the Poetry of the Event -- 4. Jean-Claude Milner’s Mallarmé: Nothing Has Taken Place -- 5. Jacques Rancière’s Mallarmé: Deferring Equality -- Conclusion: From One Siren to Another -- Bibliography -- Index