Description
Book SynopsisJacques Rancière taught at the University of Paris VIII, France,from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.
Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including
Dissensus (Continuum, 2010), and two works by Alain Badiou,
Polemics (Verso, 2006) and
Conditions (Continuum, 2008).
Trade Review‘[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
Table of ContentsForeword; 1. The Foam of Verse; i. The White Preoccupation; 2. The Poetics of Mystery; i. The Terms of Mystery; ii. The Scene of Dream; iii. From Nothingness to Nothing; iv. Method of Fiction; v. The Fan's Poem; 3. Hymns of the Spiritual Chorus; i. The Religion of the Century; ii. Two Theses on Divinity; iii. The Poet and the Worker; iv. Musical Religion; v. Wagner the God: Poem, Music and Politics; 4. The Duty of the Book; i. The Poem as Thought: A Secular History; ii. Music, Dance, Poem: The Circle of 'Mimesis'; iii. The Authentic Page; Selection of Texts; Index.
