{"product_id":"the-number-and-the-siren-isbn-9780983216926","title":"The Number and the Siren","description":"\u003cb\u003eA philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé's poem “Un Coup de Dés.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA meticulous literary study, a detective story à 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 \u003ci\u003eAfter Finitude\u003c\/i\u003e, continues his philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé's poem “Un Coup de Dés,” patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to Mallarmé's “unique Number.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 dés” 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this bold new interpretation of Mallarmé's work, Meillassoux offers brilliant insights into modernity, poetics, secularism, and religion, and opens a new chapter in his philosophy of radical contingency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume contains the entire text of the “Coup de dés” and three other poems, with new English translations.\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.—\u003cb\u003eGabriel Josipovici\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeillassoux has added a crucial dimension nobody ever noticed despite innumerable “close readings.”\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDaniel Birnbaum\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e—Quentin Meillassoux teaches philosophy at Université de Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and is author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Finitude\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.","brand":"Urbanomic\/Sequence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300899311845,"sku":"NP9780983216926","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780983216926.jpg?v=1767740754","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-number-and-the-siren-isbn-9780983216926","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}