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Herman Melville and the politics of the inhuman /

"Through a careful reconstruction of Melville's interaction with philosophy, Jonik argues that Melville develops a notion of the "inhuman" after Spinoza's radically nonanthropocentricnon-anthropocentric and relational thought. Melville's own political philosophy, in tur...

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Main Author: Jonik, Michael, 1979-
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018
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505 0 |a Introduction: Melville's inhumanities -- The constituents of a chaos: character, materiality and ethopolitics in Moby-Dick -- A geology of murmurs: Pierre's inhuman transformations -- Outlandish beings, outlandish politics: the Encantadas, or enchanted isles -- Misanthropology: commonality and its discontents in The confidence-man -- Where wild rocks are set: character and the space of Clarel -- Form, relation, and dissolution in Melville's later poetry. 
520 |a "Through a careful reconstruction of Melville's interaction with philosophy, Jonik argues that Melville develops a notion of the "inhuman" after Spinoza's radically nonanthropocentricnon-anthropocentric and relational thought. Melville's own political philosophy, in turn, actively disassembles differences between humans and nonhumans, and the animate and inanimate. Jonik has us rethink not only how we read Melville, but also how we understand our deeply inhuman condition."-- 
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