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Melville's philosophies

초록/해제: 요약 :"Meville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves--often very strange and quite radical--that Melville never stopped articulating and reformulating. What emerges is a Melville who is materialistically oriented in a radical way, a Melville who thinks about life forms not just in the context of contemporary sciences but also ontologically. Meville's Philosophies recovers a Melville who is a thinker of great caliber, which means obliquely but dramatically reversing the way the critical tradition has characterized his ideas. Finally, as a result of the readings collected here, Melville emerges as a very relevant thinker for contemporary philosophical concerns, such as the materialist turn, climate change, and post-humanism"--해제 :Provided by publisher.

초록/해제: 요약 :"Brings together some of the most eminent Melville scholars in academia today in the first book devoted to exploring Melville and philosophy"--해제 :Provided by publisher.

내용주기: 완전내용Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Reconstructing Melville Branka Arsić and K.L. Evans; Part One World-Making; 1 Gospel Cetology K.L. Evans; 2 Billy Budd, Billy Budd Stuart Burrows; 3 Science, Philosophy, and Aesthetics in "The Apple-Tree Table" Maurice S. Lee; 4 Clarel, Doubt, Delay Paul Hurh; Part Two Love Stories; 5 The Lawyer's Tale: Preference, Responsibility, and Personhood in Melville's "Story of Wall-street" Rachel Cole; 6 Pierre in Love Kenneth Dauber; 7 Phenomenology Beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain Michael D. Snediker.

내용주기: 완전내용8 "Learning, unlearning, word by word": Feeling Faith in Melville's Clarel Rhian WilliamsPart Three Arts; 9 Fateful Gestures: On Movement and the Maneuvers of Style in "Benito Cereno" James D. Lilley; 10 Melville, Poetry, Prints Samuel Otter; 11 A Final Appearance with Elihu Vedder: Melville's Visions Elisa Tamarkin; 12 La téméraire littéraire: Reckless Adaptation in Pierre and Pola X Paul Grimstad; Part Four Communities; 13 Melville's Leviathan Paul Downes; 14 Bartleby's Screen Colin Dayan; 15 Melville's Misanthropology Michael Jonik.