This is the first English translation of Ranciere's study of the 19th century French poet and critic Stephane Mallarme. In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Ranciere, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, Stephane Mallarme. Ranciere presents Mallarme as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written. Mallarme is the contemporary of a republic that is seeking out forms of civic worship to replace the pomp of religions and kings. If his writing is difficult, it is because it complies with a demanding and delicate poetics that is itself responding to an exceptional awareness of the complexity of an historical moment as well as the role that poetry ought to play in it.

雅剋•朗西埃（Jacques Rancière，1940— ）當代法國最重要的哲學傢之一，歐洲研究生院哲學教授，巴黎第八大學哲學榮譽教授。其寫作內容主要集中於美學、藝術哲學、政治哲學等領域。代錶作有《圖像的命運》《政治的邊緣》《文學的政治》《詞語的肉身》《哲學傢和他的窮人們》等。

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曹丹紅，1980年齣生於浙江寜波，1999年進入南京大學法語專業學習，2008年取得博士學位。現為南京大學外國語學院副教授、碩士生導師，法國巴黎索邦大學訪問學者，主要研究方嚮為翻譯學、法國文論。已翻譯齣版瞭《批評與臨床》《日常生活頌歌》《柏拉圖的理想國》《藝術傢的責任》等多部法國文學及社科名著。