Badiou and American Modernist Poetics [Hardcover]

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the text engages with themes of the void, mastery, and place present in both modernist poetry and in Badious philosophy. Through an examination of classic modernist texts, Cameron MacKenzie reveals that where Badiou hopes to go, the modernists have already been.

1. The Void and the Mark

2. A Poetic Dialectic: The Place is Void

            2.1 Master, Place, and Truth

            2.2 A Throw of the Dice

            2.3 The Ode of Lab?d

            2.4 The Subject of the Void

3. Contaminated Intentions: Tradition and the Individual Talent

            3.1 Building the Ideal Order

            3.2 A Ruined Bicycle

            3.3 The Poet and the Critic

4. Badiou, Stevens, Drawing

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