Mallarmé: Rancière, Milner, Badiou

by Robert Boncardo, Christian R. Gelder

Overview

Featuring original interviews with three of the most important theorists of the 21st century, this volume clarifies the relationship between contemporary French philosophy and poetry. The interviews demonstrate how Rancière, Milner, and Badiou are all in conversation with one another on various points.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786603104
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/21/2017
Series:	Insolubilia: New Work in Contemporary Philosophy
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert Boncardo has completed a doctorate in French Studies at The University of Sydney and Aix-Marseille Université.

Christian R. Gelder has completed a Master of Arts in English Literature at The Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, The University of New South Wales.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The subject to which everything is attached / 1. “A singular invention of language and thought”: Jacques Rancière / 2. “I believed I owed Mallarmé the truth”: Jean-Claude Milner / 3. “Mallarmé said it all”: Alain Badiou / Further Reading / Index

Editorial Reviews

The interviews conducted by Robert Boncardo and Christian Gelder with Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner and Jacques Rancière are invaluable, and for more than one reason. They confirm that Stéphane Mallarmé is an unsurpassable figure in the French literary and intellectual field for whoever reflects with even the slightest seriousness on the relations between literature, philosophy, science and politics. They provide a very illuminating overview of the mental universes of some of the greatest contemporary French intellectuals, and prove in passing that, no, they have not yet completely disappeared. And finally, they suffice to show that, in a period of academic regression in literary studies, it is possible to assign this discipline tasks far more exhilarating than what today’s reigning neo-philology can imagine.

Vincent Kaufmann

Mallarmé said it all”: these  conversations with three of France’s leading philosophers explore the complexity of the poet’s thought, moving from the broadly humanistic to the more overtly political. By tying each interpretation to the personal evolution of each thinker, the two editors enhance our understanding both of these readings of Mallarmé and of the philosophers themselves. ​

Rosemary Lloyd

The interviews with Badiou, Rancière and Milner, as occasioned and recorded in this important new book restore Stéphane Mallarmé to the world of real artistic, political and scientific events and actions, and hopefully contribute towards further emancipating the great poet’s work from perceptions of inaccessibility and obscurity.

20 April 2018 Sydney Review of Books

The interviews with Badiou, Rancière and Milner, as occasioned and recorded in this important new book restore Stéphane Mallarmé to the world of real artistic, political and scientific events and actions, and hopefully contribute towards further emancipating the great poet’s work from perceptions of inaccessibility and obscurity.

Sydney Review of Books

[Le livre] a le grand mérite, d’abord, de rappeler que le poète est encore à l’origine de pensées abstraites, malgré la domination depuis une bonne dizaine d’années, dans un champ toujours en expansion, de l’approche socio-historique.

72/2 French Studies

When properly conscious of Mallarmé at all, the Anglophone world has rarely if ever registered the astonishing variety of the thought he has provoked in modern France, and his crucial importance for a range of philosophical, linguistic, political, aesthetic and mathematical debates. With a long and well-informed introduction, these searching and absorbing interviews tell us much, not only about how Mallarmé has mattered and continued to matter to his compatriots, but about why he should matter to ourselves.  

Andrew Gibson