Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Mallarme: The Politics of the Siren

Mallarme: The Politics of the Siren

Rancière, Jacques
Corcoran, Steven

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0826438407
ISBN13: 9780826438409
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Aug 18 2011
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Rancière, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, Stéphane Mallarmé.

Ranciere presents Mallarmé as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written. Mallarmé is the contemporary of a republic that is seeking out forms of civic worship to replace the pomp of religions and kings. If his writing is difficult, it is because it complies with a demanding and delicate poetics that is itself responding to an exceptional awareness of the complexity of an historical moment as well as the role that poetry ought to play in it.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Philosophy

View All