The Number and the Siren Contributor(s): Meillassoux, Quentin (Author), MacKay, Robin (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0983216924 ISBN-13: 9780983216926 Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
Dewey: 841.8 |
LCCN: 2012464075 |
Series: Urbanomic/Sequence Press |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.4" W x 6.8" (0.60 lbs) 312 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): MacKay, Robin: - Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.Meillassoux, Quentin: - Quentin Meillassoux teaches philosophy at Université de Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and is author of After Finitude. |