Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman

Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781108372824
ISBN-13 : 1108372821
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Book Synopsis Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman by : Michael Jonik

Download or read book Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman written by Michael Jonik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the writing of Herman Melville are often divided among those that address his political, historical, or biographical dimensions and those that offer creative theoretical readings of his texts. In Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman, Michael Jonik offers a series of nuanced and ambitious philosophical readings of Melville that unite these varied approaches. Through a careful reconstruction of Melville's interaction with philosophy, Jonik argues that Melville develops a notion of the 'inhuman' after Spinoza's radically non-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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