The Number And The Siren Av Quentin (universite Paris 1 Pantheon-sorbonne) Meillassoux

<b>A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé''s poem “Un Coup de Dés.”</b><p>A 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 <i>After Finitude</i>, 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.”</p><p>The 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” c

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