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What could it mean to feel eternal? In Experience and Eternity in
Spinoza, Moreau fundamentally transforms our inherited
understanding of Spinoza's philosophy. Through a detailed study of
Spinoza's concept of 'experience', Moreau shows how Spinoza extends
the power of reason to domains frequently seen as irrational, from
common life to history, language to the passions. Where previously
Spinoza's thought was identified exclusively with the geometrical
method, Moreau demonstrates that by mobilising his unique account
of 'experience', Spinoza is able to capture the singularity of
individuals, their lives, languages, passions and societies. With
readings of each of Spinoza's most famous works, from the Treatise
on the Emendation of the Intellect to the Ethics, but also
unprecedented studies of minor writings such as the Hebrew Grammar,
Moreau renews our understanding of Spinoza's philosophy by showing
the simultaneous operation of the geometrical and experiential
methods. Finally, this new vision of Spinoza's philosophy
illuminates the enigmatic experience of eternity mentioned in Book
V of Spinoza's Ethics.
Through a detailed study of Spinoza's concept of 'experience',
Moreau shows how Spinoza extends the power of reason to domains
frequently seen as irrational, from common life to history,
language to the passions. Where previously Spinoza's thought was
identified exclusively with the geometrical method, Moreau
demonstrates that by mobilising his unique account of 'experience',
Spinoza is able to capture the singularity of individuals, their
lives, languages, passions and societies. With readings of each of
Spinoza's most famous works, from the Treatise on the Emendation of
the Intellect to the Ethics, and also minor writings such as the
Hebrew Grammar, Moreau renews our understanding of Spinoza's
philosophy by showing us how his geometrical and experiential
methods operate simultaneously. Finally, this new vision of
Spinoza's philosophy illuminates the enigmatic experience of
eternity mentioned in Book V of Spinoza's Ethics.
Robert Boncardo investigates how Stephane Mallarme, one of
modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, became an object of
major political significance for French intellectuals. 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. With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia
Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, along with shorter
analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, he situates
Mallarme within the philosophical and political projects of some of
France's greatest thinkers.
Recounts the radical readings of Mallarme's seminal poems by some
of France's most important 20th century thinkersWhy is Stephane
Mallarme, one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, so
important to French philosophers? With in-depth studies of
Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques
Ranciere, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and
Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo situates Mallarme within these
thinkers' philosophical and political projects.Key FeaturesExplains
different thinkers' distinct approaches to Mallarme's poetry and
prose, in particular to their political significanceReflects on the
various ways literature has been conceived of politically by French
thinkersThe first work of English-language scholarship on each of
these thinker's reading of Mallarme and the first work to read each
of these thinkers in tandem, locating their points of contact and
difference
From the post-War writings of Sartre and Blanchot to the
post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva, French
philosophers have consistently debated the poetry of Stephane
Mallarme, almost as a rite of passage. Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude
Milner and Jacques Ranciere - three of the most important
philosophers alive today - are no exception, having written
extensively about the poet since the 1960's and 70's up until
today. This book contains a series of interviews with these three
figures on Mallarme, as well as an extended introduction that
places their thought on literature into dialogue. Speaking about
their personal and philosophical relationships with each other, on
methods of reading, on poetry and politics, and poetry and
mathematics, each philosopher reflects on their life-long
engagement with Mallarme, as well as on the different, often
incommensurable, images of the poet their philosophies have
generated. As Ranciere, Milner and Badiou point to the past
importance and future directions Mallarme gives to thought, these
interviews lend credence to Barthes' remark that "all we can do is
repeat Mallarme - and it is good that we do so".
From the post-War writings of Sartre and Blanchot to the
post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva, French
philosophers have consistently debated the poetry of Stephane
Mallarme, almost as a rite of passage. Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude
Milner and Jacques Ranciere - three of the most important
philosophers alive today - are no exception, having written
extensively about the poet since the 1960's and 70's up until
today. This book contains a series of interviews with these three
figures on Mallarme, as well as an extended introduction that
places their thought on literature into dialogue. Speaking about
their personal and philosophical relationships with each other, on
methods of reading, on poetry and politics, and poetry and
mathematics, each philosopher reflects on their life-long
engagement with Mallarme, as well as on the different, often
incommensurable, images of the poet their philosophies have
generated. As Ranciere, Milner and Badiou point to the past
importance and future directions Mallarme gives to thought, these
interviews lend credence to Barthes' remark that "all we can do is
repeat Mallarme - and it is good that we do so".
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