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 turn, act...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.