Reading Paul Valéry: Universe in Mind
by Edited by Paul Gifford , Brian StimpsonEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-02-17
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
The most recently acknowledged--and the most private--of the masters of modernity, Paul Val_ry is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. He navigates freely within the mental galaxies known to scientists, poets, literary theorists, musicians, philosophers, historians and social anthropologists, always concerned with exploring the potential and limits of the human mind. This volume of essays by internationally recognized scholars offers the first comprehensive account in English or French of Val_ry's work. It brings into focus the deeper coherence that animates what Val_ry called his "unitary mind in a thousand pieces," and offers new perspectives on the immense range of his experimental and fragmentary writings.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Self-Science | |
| Towards a biography of the mind | |
| Thinking-writing games of the Cahiers | |
| Paradigms of the self: Valry's mythical models | |
| The fascination of science Judith | |
| An art of rethinking: Valry's 'negative philosophy' | |
| Self-Writings | |
| The poetics of practice and theory | |
| 'Esprit, Attente, pur, ternel suspens ... ' Valry's prose poetry | |
| The Dialogues and 'Mon Faust': Valry's republic of the mind | |
| Counter-fiction | |
| Major poems: the voice of the subject | |
| Other voices: intertextuality and the art of pure poetry | |
| Manuscript steps: 'Les Pas' | |
| Body, Mind, World | |
| An aesthetics of the subject: music and the visual arts | |
| Politics, history and the modern world Nicole | |
| Valry and the feminine | |
| Dream and the unconscious | |
| Self and other: Valry's 'lost object of desire' | |
| Conclusion | |
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