The Number and the Siren

A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarme's poem "Un Coup de Des." A meticulous literary study, a detective story a 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 Mallarme's poem "Un Coup de Des," patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to Mallarme'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 des" 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 Mallarme'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 des" and three other poems, with new English translations.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Robin Mackay, Quentin Meillassoux, Quentin (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne) Meillassoux
• Mitarbeit: Robin Mackay (Übersetzung), Robin (Urbanomic Media Ltd) Mackay (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Random House USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.04.2012
• EAN: 9780983216926
• ISBN: 978-0-9832169-2-6
• Seiten: 312
• Abmessung: 116 mm x 176 mm x 17 mm
• Serien: Urbanomic/Sequence Press; Urbanomic/Sequence Press
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik > Lyrik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Einzelne Dichter, Englisch / Lehrbuch, Lehrgang, VHS