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Titre(s) : Melville among the philosophers [Texte imprimé] / edited by Corey McCall and Tom Nurmi ; afterword by Cornel West
Publication : Lanham (Md.) : Lexington books, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvii-232 p.) : illustration ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. et bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Index
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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : McCall, Corey. Éditeur scientifique
Nurmi, Tom. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Melville, Herman (1819-1891) -- Philosophie
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) -- Critique et interprétation
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) -- Pensée politique et sociale
Philosophie -- Dans la littérature
Philosophie -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
191 (23e éd.) = Philosophie occidentale moderne - États-Unis et Canada
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781498536745. - ISBN 1498536743. - ISBN 9781498536752 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45344234b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45344234
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Table des matières : Introduction: Melville's silence / Corey McCall & Tom Nurmi ; 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 ; 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
Cavell, reading Bartleby with Deleuze, then Rancière / David Larocca ; Afterword.
Afterword: a time to break the philosophic silencing of Melville / Cornel West.