Description A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarm 's poem Un Coup de D s.
A meticulous literary study, a detective story 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 Mallarm 's poem Un Coup de D s, patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to Mallarm '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 d s 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 Mallarm '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 d s and three other poems, with new English translations.
| Shipwreck | As the living heart of a drama that is still unfolding |
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Urbanomic/sequence Press The number and the siren, paperback/quentin meillassoux
