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Melville among the Philosophers
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2017
Summary
For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to Melville in particular. This volume addresses this silence through a series of essays that: (1) examine various philosophical contexts for Melville’s work, (2) take seriously Melville’s writings as philosophy, and (3) consider how modern philosophers have used Melville and the implications of appropriating Melville for contemporary thought. Melville among the Philosophers is ultimately an intervention across literary studies and philosophy that carves new paths into the work of one of America’s most celebrated authors, a man who continues to enchant and challenge readers well into the twenty-first century.
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Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-3674-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-3675-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
232
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction No access
Chapter One: “In Voiceless Visagelessness” No access
Chapter Two: Platonic and Nietzschean Themes of Transformation in Moby-Dick No access
Chapter Three: Passion, Reverie, Disaster, Joy No access
Chapter Four: Outlandish Lands No access
Chapter Five: Beasts, Sovereigns, Pirates No access
Chapter Six: On Religion and the Strangeness of Speech No access
Chapter Seven: Melville’s Phenomenology of Gender No access
Chapter Eight: De-colonial Options in Moby-Dick No access
Chapter Nine: “Benito Cereno,” or, the American Chronotope of Slavery No access
Chapter Ten: The European Authorization of American Literature and Philosophy No access
