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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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Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsman: Jonik, Michael, 1979-
Materialtyp: Printed Book
Språk:English
Publicerad: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018
Ämnen:
Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.