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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.
Introduction: Reconstructing Melville -- Branka Arsic (Columbia University, USA) and K.L. Evans (Cornell University, USA) PART ONE: WORLD-MAKING -- 1. Gospel Cetology -- K.L. Evans (Cornell University, USA) -- 2. Billy Budd, Billy Budd -- Stuart Burrows (Brown University, USA) -- 3. Science, Philosophy, and Aesthetics in "The Apple-Tree Table" -- Maurice S. Lee (Boston University, USA) -- 4. Clarel, Doubt, Delay -- Paul Hurh (University of Arizona, USA) PART TWO: LOVE STORIES -- 5. The Lawyer's Tale: Preference, Responsibility, and Personhood in Melville's 'Story of Wall-street' -- Rachel Cole (Lewis & Clark College, USA) -- 6. Pierre in Love -- Kenneth Dauber (SUNY-Buffalo, USA) -- 7. Phenomenology beyond the phantom limb: Melvillean figuration & chronic pain -- Michael Snediker (University of Houston, USA) PART THREE: ARTS -- 8. Fateful Gestures: On Movement and the Maneuvers of Style in "Benito Cereno" -- James D. Lilley (SUNY-Albany, USA) -- 9. Melville, Poetry, Prints -- Samuel Otter (University of California, USA) -- 10. A Final Appearance with Elihu Vedder: Melville's Visions -- Elisa Tamarkin (University of California, USA) -- 11. La téméraire littéraire: Reckless Adaptation in Pierre and Pola X -- Paul Grimstad (New York University, USA) PART FOUR: COMMUNITIES -- 12. Melville's Leviathan -- Paul Downes (University of Toronto, Canada) -- 13. Bartleby's Screen -- Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University, USA) -- 14. Melville's Misanthropology -- Michael Jonik (University of Sussex, UK) -- 15. Clarel and the Deforestation of Palestine -- Branka Arsic (Columbia University, USA) Index.
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