Mallarmé and the politics of literature: Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Ranciere

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"Robert Boncardo investigates how Stéphane Mallarmé, one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, became an object of major political significance for French intellectuals. With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, Boncardo situates Mallarmé within the philosophical and political projects of some of France's greatest thinkers. He asks how this most refined and seemingly aristocratic of poets became the writer of choice for leftist intellectuals and reflects on the ambivalent relation between literature and its political destiny in modernity."--back cover.;Introduction: Comrade Mallarmé -- 1. Jean-Paul Sartre's Mallarmé: Hero of an ontological drama, agent of the counter-revolution -- 2. Julia Kristeva's Mallarmé: From fetishism to the theatre-book -- 3. Alain Badiou's Mallarmé: From the structural dialectic to the poetry of the event -- 4. Jean-Claude Milner's Mallarmé: Nothing has taken place -- 5. Jacques Rancière's Mallarmé: Deferring equality. -- Conclusion: From one siren to another. Introduction: Comrade Mallarmé -- 1. Jean-Paul Sartre's Mallarmé: Hero of an ontological drama, agent of the counter-revolution -- 2. Julia Kristeva's Mallarmé: From fetishism to the theatre-book -- 3. Alain Badiou's Mallarmé: From the structural dialectic to the poetry of the event -- 4. Jean-Claude Milner's Mallarmé: Nothing has taken place -- 5. Jacques Rancière's Mallarmé: Deferring equality. -- Conclusion: From one siren to another.