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9814 | All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou] |
Full Idea: Like every great poet, Mallarmé was engaged in a tacit rivalry with mathematics. | |
From: Alain Badiou (Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little [2004], p.20) | |
A reaction: I love these French pronouncements! Would Mallarmé have agreed? If poetry and mathematics are the poles, where is philosophy to be found? |