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.

• MALLARMÉ AND THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Introduction: Comrade Mallarmé
• 1 Jean-Paul Sartre’s Mallarmé: Hero of an Ontological Drama, Agent of the Counter-revolution
• 2 Julia Kristeva’s Mallarmé: From Fetishism to the Theatre-Book
• 3 Alain Badiou’s Mallarmé: From the Structural Dialectic to the Poetry of the Event
• 4 Jean-Claude Milner’s Mallarmé: Nothing Has Taken Place
• 5 Jacques Rancière’s Mallarmé: Deferring Equality
• Conclusion: From One Siren to Another
• Bibliography
• Index