Mallarmé had a record of explicit political engagement, not just aestheticism.

Evidence

It should be said that Mallarmé himself is not to be reduced to the dichotomy of Magie. During the Mac-Mahon crisis of 1876-77, when the constitution of the Third Republic hung in the balance, he published an article in La République des Lettres declaring that ‘nothing less than the sovereignty of the people’ was at stake, under the rubric of — indeed — La Politique. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 354

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the cliché of the aestheticist Mallarmé; relevant to Jameson’s construction of theory’s political genealogy. — connects to: Being present at a creative political moment sharpens one’s grasp of political will. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 734

Broader Connections

• Being present at a creative political moment sharpens one’s grasp of political will. #expands (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 734