Reading Paul Val©ry

Universe in Mind

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Paperback | 17 February 2011

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Paul Valery's work is a unique odyssey in the universe of ideas and mental forms. The most recently acknowledged - and the most private - of the masters of modernity, Valery is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. He navigates freely within the mental galaxies known to scientists, poets, literary theorists, musicians, philosophers, historicans and social anthropologists, always concerned to explore the potential and limits of the human mind. Originally published in 1999, the present volume of essays by internationally recognised scholars offered the first comprehensive account of Valery's work in English or French. It provided a series of readings bringing into focus the deeper coherence that animates what Valery called his 'unitary mind in a thousand pieces', and offered perspectives on the immense range of his experimental and fragmentary writings. This book moved forward the frontiers of our understanding of Valery's work, and substantially altered the way in which he was perceived.

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Introduction
Self-Science
Towards a biography of the mind
Thinking-writing games of the Cahiers
Paradigms of the self: Valry's mythical models
The fascination of science Judith
An art of rethinking: Valry's 'negative philosophy'
Self-Writings
The poetics of practice and theory
'Esprit, Attente, pur, ternel suspens ... ' Valry's prose poetry
The Dialogues and 'Mon Faust': Valry's republic of the mind
Counter-fiction
Major poems: the voice of the subject
Other voices: intertextuality and the art of pure poetry
Manuscript steps: 'Les Pas'
Body, Mind, World
An aesthetics of the subject: music and the visual arts
Politics, history and the modern world Nicole
Valry and the feminine
Dream and the unconscious
Self and other: Valry's 'lost object of desire'
Conclusion
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