Melville among the Philosophers

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3674-5 (ISBN)

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This book is aimed at both philosophers and scholars of American literature who wish to reexamine the philosophical depth of Melville’s writings. Contributions deal with various philosophical aspects of Melville’s work, including well-known texts such as Moby-Dick as well as lesser-known works such as Pierre, “The Encantadas,” and Clarel.

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.

Corey McCall is associate professor of philosophy at Elmira College. Tom Nurmi is assistant professor of English at Montana State University Billings.

Introduction: Melville’s Silence
Corey McCall & Tom Nurmi

I. Melville as Philosopher

“In Voiceless Visagelessness”: The Disenchanted Landscape of Clarel
Troy Jollimore

Platonic and Nietzschean Themes of Transformation in Moby-Dick
Mark Anderson

Passion, Reverie, Disaster, Joy: What Philosophers Learn at Sea
Edward F. Mooney

Outlandish Lands: Melville’s Pierre and the Democratic Ambiguity of Space and Time
Jason M. Wirth

Beasts, Sovereigns, Pirates: Melville’s “Enchanted Isles” Beyond the Picturesque
Gary Shapiro

On Religion and the Strangeness of Speech: Typee as a ‘Peep’
Tracy B. Strong

II. Inheriting Melville

Melville’s Phenomenology of Gender: Critical Reflections on C.L.R. James’ Mariners, Renegades, Castaways and Paget Henry’s Caliban’s Reason
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat

Decolonial Options in Moby-Dick
Kris Sealey

“Benito Cereno,” or, the American Chronotope of Slavery
Eduardo Mendieta

The European Authorization of American Literature and Philosophy: After C

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2018
Co-Autor	Troy A. Jollimore, Mark Anderson, Edward F. Mooney
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w illustrations;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 235 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4985-3674-3 / 1498536743
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-3674-5 / 9781498536745
Zustand	Neuware