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Melville’s Philosophies

2017-05-18 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Melville’s Philosophies by : Branka Arsic

Download or read book Melville’s Philosophies written by Branka Arsic. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melville'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. Melville'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.

Melville among the Philosophers

2017-10-18 Philosophy
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Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Melville among the Philosophers by : Corey McCall

Download or read book Melville among the Philosophers written by Corey McCall. This book was released on 2017-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

One Foot in the Finite

2017-12-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-12-15
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Book Synopsis One Foot in the Finite by : K. L. Evans

Download or read book One Foot in the Finite written by K. L. Evans. This book was released on 2017-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Foot in the Finite inspires a radical shift in our view of Melville’s project in Moby-Dick, for its guiding notion is that Melville uses his book to call into question the naturalism that distinguishes the early modern period in Europe. Naturalism is not only the idea that reality is exhausted by nature, or that there exists a domain of physical entities subject to autonomous laws and unaffected by human ingenuity; it also implies a counterpart, a world of pretense and deception, a domain of mental entities ontologically distinct from physical entities and therefore constituting a different realm. To naturalists, whales are part of the background of existing objects against which man assembles his various, subjective, rather arbitrary interpretations. But in Moby-Dick Melville casts upon the world a more ingenious eye, one free of the dualist veil. He confronts a basic misconception: that the contents of consciousness comprise a different order from physical life. He rubs out the dividing line modernity has drawn between the human world of names or concepts and the nonhuman world of plants, creatures, geological features, and natural forces. Melville’s philosophizing, carried by fiction, has dramatic consequence. It overturns our view of language as a system of mental representations that might turn out to represent falsely.

Melville�s Philosophies

2017-05-18 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Melville�s Philosophies by : Branka Arsic

Download or read book Melville�s Philosophies written by Branka Arsic. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brings together some of the most eminent Melville scholars in academia today in the first book devoted to exploring Melville and philosophy"--

Melville's Philosophies

2017 Philosophy in literature
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Release : 2017
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Book Synopsis Melville's Philosophies by : Branka Arsić

Download or read book Melville's Philosophies written by Branka Arsić. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brings together some of the most eminent Melville scholars in academia today in the first book devoted to exploring Melville andphilosophy"--

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