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Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé · French Symbolist poet (1842–1898) · 1842–1898

Appears in 85 videos · 125 passages, 42 of them in depth.

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Dominique Pagani most often quotes Mallarmé's line from Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe, "to give a purer sense to the words of the tribe." He sees in it a task the poet shares with Socrates and with philosophy12. He also takes up the parallel Mallarmé draws between speech and monetary exchange3. In "Conflit," he reads a social text in which this poet, called decadent and aristocratic, ends up watching over the workers' sleep and recognizing them4. In Crise de vers, "I say: a flower" helps him think about the idea, "the one absent from every bouquet," which he links to Plato and to desire56. He discusses the theme of sterility through "the empty paper that its whiteness defends" and the swan sonnet, and connects it to Hegel, of whom he considers Mallarmé a rare French connoisseur. He often returns to L'Action restreinte: man writes "black on white" and keeps a bit of mystery7. Finally, he calls Lacan's style "sub-Mallarmé."

  1. 19 #16 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?4 Mar 2021 · 42:31
  2. 2Guerre, néo-fascisme : le libéralisme-libertaire3 Mar 2023 · 29:00
  3. 3La religion de l'Argent29 Sept 2019 · 8:23
  4. 4Mallarmé ou la lutte des classes sur le gazon - Lectures sur le vif31 Jan 2023 · 3:05
  5. 5#4.6 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 1:46:30
  6. 6Clouscard et le problème de Socrate14 Oct 2022 · 33:41
  7. 7La laïcité, vérité de la religion ?18 Feb 2024 · 1:15:36

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Portrait: MallarméWho is this?

Étienne Mallarmé (UK: MAL-ar-may, US: mal-ar-MAY; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), known professionally as Stéphane Mallarmé (French: ), was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.

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Season 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?
  1. 1:08:16Cited for his mastery of ceremony.
  2. 1:15:36Restricted ActionAction par excellence is to write; one writes black on white, and a bit of mystery remains in what is expressed.
  3. 1:24:44Restricted ActionThe share of mystery is necessary because the subject does not want to know everything about himself.
  4. 1:26:00Restricted ActionHe answers a young man tempted by suicide: "there is no present"; ill-informed is he who believes himself his own contemporary.
Series · 31 Jan 2023Mallarmé, or class struggle on the lawn - Readings on the Spot
  1. 0:30The Tomb of Edgar PoeThe expression "tel qu'en lui-même," in common use today, comes from this poem.
  2. 1:07Variations on a ThemeThe subject of these variations is the crisis of poetry, fruitful according to Mallarmé; an author said to be hermetic, decadent, of aristocratic manners without being of aristocratic origin.
  3. 3:05ConflictCommented reading: the poet hostile to the workers ends up watching over their sleep and recognizing in them the share of the sacred.
  4. 7:12Ruined, he was an English teacher at Tournon and summed up his fate as "art and the Ardèche."
  5. 14:34ConflictThis poet, said to be reactionary, wrote one of the most social and generous texts of the end of the century, more profound than much revolutionary literature.
Season 7 · 26 Apr 2020#6 • Harnessed to confinitude
  1. 11:59The virgin, the vivacious, and the beautiful todayIn his sonnet of the swan, everything is white: virginity, frost, ice, sterility.
  2. 33:04The virgin, the vivacious, and the beautiful todayTranslation of the sonnet: the swan is trapped in the ice for not having sung; dread of the great work.
  3. 43:43Sea BreezeThe empty paper defended by whiteness: dilemma between sterile purity and writing; he knows Hegel.
  4. 48:17The former sky where beauty flourished: figure of the world before the fall.
Season 7 · 30 Mar 2020#2 - Harnessed to Confinitude
  1. 18:31Restricted ActionHe answers a young man tempted by suicide: "write." Man pursues black on white, contrary to the stars.
  2. 30:22The Afternoon of a Faun"These nymphs, I want to perpetuate them": modern man nonetheless knows that springs contain H2O.
  3. 1:08:28Restricted ActionThe quotation returns: the unformulated that remains in every formulation is the share of finitude, of "confinitude."

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