Description
| Product ID: | 9780983216926 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Number and the Siren |
| Authors: | Author: Quentin Meillassoux, Robin Mackay |
| Page Count: | 312 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics |
| Description: | A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé''s poem “Un Coup de Dés.” A meticulous literary study, a detective story à la Edgar Allan Poe, a treasure-hunt worthy of an adventure novel—such is the register in which can be deciphered the hidden secrets of a poem like no other. Quentin Meillassoux, author of After Finitude, continues his philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé''s poem “Un Coup de Dés,” patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to Mallarmé''s “unique Number.” The decisive point of the investigation proposed by Meillassoux comes with a discovery, unsettling and yet as simple as a child''s game. The Number that “can be no other” can only be revealed to us via a secret code, hidden in the “Coup de dés” like a key that finally unlocks every one of its poetic devices. Thus is also unveiled the meaning of that siren, emerging for a lightning-flash amongst the debris of the shipwreck: as the living heart of a drama that is still unfolding. With this bold new interpretation of Mallarmé''s work, Meillassoux offers brilliant insights into modernity, poetics, secularism, and religion, and opens a new chapter in his philosophy of radical contingency. The volume contains the entire text of the “Coup de dés” and three other poems, with new English translations. |
| Imprint Name: | Sequence Press |
| Publisher Name: | Sequence Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-04-06 |
