Mallarmé and the politics of literature: Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Rancière Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)/ Robert Boncardo.

Abstract

With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancir̈e, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo asks how Stéphane Mallarmé became so politically significant for left-wing French intellectuals.