Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
Mallarme : The Politics of the Siren - Jacques Rancière

Mallarme

The Politics of the Siren

By: Jacques Rancière, Steven Corcoran (Translator)

Hardcover | 16 June 2011 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $85.00

$78.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $19.69 with

 or 

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Ranci re, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, St phane Mallarm .

Ranciere presents Mallarm as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written. Mallarm is the contemporary of a republic that is seeking out forms of civic worship to replace the pomp of religions and kings. If his writing is difficult, it is because it complies with a demanding and delicate poetics that is itself responding to an exceptional awareness of the complexity of an historical moment as well as the role that poetry ought to play in it.

In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Ranci re, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, St phane Mallarm .

Ranciere presents Mallarm as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written. Mallarm is the contemporary of a republic that is seeking out forms of civic worship to replace the pomp of religions and kings. If his writing is difficult, it is because it complies with a demanding and delicate poetics that is itself responding to an exceptional awareness of the complexity of an historical moment as well as the role that poetry ought to play in it.

Industry Reviews
'[The author] seeks-through several intricate, close readings-to reinterpret the poet as one whose complexity lent light and lightness to a civilization deprived of spiritual and monarchic anchors.'-Choice Magazine

More in Philosophy & Aesthetics

The Birth of Tragedy : Penguin Classics - Friedrich Nietzsche

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
American Medium : A New Film Philosophy - Eyal Peretz

RRP $64.99

$63.75

The Symposium : Penguin Classics - Plato

RRP $26.99

$21.75

19%
OFF
Distinction : A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste - Pierre Bourdieu
Bluets - Maggie Nelson

Hardcover

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Sacred Geometry : Philosophy and Practice - Robert Lawlor

RRP $21.99

$17.75

19%
OFF
The Beauty of Everyday Things : Penguin Modern Classics - Soetsu Yanagi
Poetics : Penguin Classics - Aristotle

RRP $26.99

$20.75

23%
OFF
Color Charts : A History - Anne Varichon

RRP $89.99

$68.75

24%
OFF
In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays - Junichiro Tanizaki

RRP $27.99

$24.99

11%
OFF
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice - J. F. Martel

RRP $45.00

$41.99

The Performer : Art, Life, Politics - Richard Sennett

RRP $26.99

$21.75

19%
OFF
The Joyous Science : Penguin Classics - Friedrich Nietzsche

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Chromorama : How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing - Riccardo Falcinelli

RRP $32.99

$25.75

22%
OFF
The Practice - Seth Godin

Paperback

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF
The Interviews - Ian Bloom

$39.75

Design as Art : Penguin Modern Classics - Bruno Munari

RRP $26.99

$20.75

23%
OFF
Bring No Clothes : Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion - Charlie Porter
A World Not of this World : The Reality of Images and Imagination - Professor Alfredo  Ferrarin