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"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 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."

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Author:   Quentin Meillassoux (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) ,  Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd)
Publisher:   Sequence Press
Imprint:   Sequence Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.40cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.246kg
ISBN:  

9780983216926

ISBN 10:   0983216924
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   06 April 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part One: Encrypting the Number; Part Two: Fixing the Infinite; Conclusion; Appendix 1: The Poems; Appendix 2: The Count; Translator's Note

Reviews

A page-turner ... I haven't read a critical book with such eagerness to find out what happens next for a long time. Beautifully produced and translated, a book every poetry lover will want to have in his pocket to read on bus, train, and plane. -Gabriel Josipovici, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Meillassoux has added a crucial dimension nobody ever noticed despite innumerable close readings. -Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum

Meillassoux has added a crucial dimension nobody ever noticed despite innumerable close readings. -Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum A page-turner ... I haven't read a critical book with such eagerness to find out what happens next for a long time. Beautifully produced and translated, a book every poetry lover will want to have in his pocket to read on bus, train, and plane. -Gabriel Josipovici, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Author Information

Quentin Meillassoux teaches philosophy at Universite de Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne), and is author of After Finitude. Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

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