{"product_id":"the-number-and-the-siren-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 Mallarm 's poem \"Un Coup de D s.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eAfter Finitude\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\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 d s\" 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 Mallarm '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 d s\" and three other poems, with new English translations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Urbanomic\/Sequence Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780983216926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.80h x 4.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Quentin Meillassoux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44833758937269,"sku":"9780983216926","price":22.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ea9d439b-e3c6-4497-81c2-c633774f202e.jpg?v=1732030008","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-number-and-the-siren-9780983216926","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}