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Herman Melville and the politics of the inhuman

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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:39 authored by Michael JonikMichael Jonik
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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  • Published

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Cambridge University Press

Pages

276.0

Place of publication

Cambridge

ISBN

9781108420921

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  • English Publications

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  • Sussex Centre for American Studies Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-03-27

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-09-01

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-03-27

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