Number and the Siren Meillassoux QuentinPaperback
A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarm 's poem "Un Coup de D s."A meticulous literary study, a detective story la…
Specifikacia Number and the Siren Meillassoux QuentinPaperback
A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarm 's poem "Un Coup de D s."A meticulous literary study, a detective story 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 After Finitude, continues his philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarm 's poem "Un Coup de D s," patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to Mallarm 's "unique Number."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