What is it about?
This paper revisits the English translation of Q. Meillassoux's The Number and the Siren, a numerological take on Mallarmé's groundbreaking last poem: "Un Coup de dés" ("A throw of the dice will never abolish Fate"). My approach uses an expanded version of Michael Riffaterre's semiotic theory of the structure of modern poetry, showing that Meillassoux's approach is inadequate, resulting in a serious misinterpretation of this landmark work.
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Why is it important?
My approach shows that philosophers should not feel free to reinterpret modernist poems without having recourse to a semiotic theory of the structure of modern poetry.
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This page is a summary of: From shipwreck to constellation: Rethinking Meillassoux on Mallarmé from a semiotic perspective, Semiotica, November 2019, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0054.
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