抄録
Among many authors discussed by Jacques Rancière, Stéphane Mallarmé is one of
the most important poets and has been intermittently revisited since the publication
of Mallarmé (1996). This monograph is intensely focused on the relationship between
Mallarmé’s works and politics (particularly dealing with a thought of “community”).
The relationship between art and politics is consistently addressed in Rancière’s other
writings but has become complicated since he reinterpreted the history of Western
aesthetics around 2000. However, previous studies on Rancière’s interpretation of
Mallarmé fail to acknowledge such complexity because they focus exclusively on
Mallarmé and his contemporary writings.
Therefore, this paper investigates The Future of the Image (2003) and Aisthesis
(2011), as well as Mallarmé, to trace changes in Mallarmé’s status. Through this
investigation, this paper reveals new politicization in Rancière’s writings on Mallarmé.
This paper is organized as follows: firstly, confirming that Mallarmé is the poet
that observes ordinary events of everyday life, and secondly, this paper clarifies a
discrepancy between the figure of Mallarmé depicted in Mallarmé and Rancière’s
concept of the “aesthetic regime of art.” Finally, this paper demonstrates that Rancière
provides new insights on Mallarmé in his writings since the year 2000.
