Herman Melville and the politics of the inhuman / Michael Jonik.
Herman Melville and the politics of the inhuman / Michael Jonik.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/3018
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English
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x, 268 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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 d...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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England
Date Published
2018.
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"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, actively disassembles differences between humans and nonhumans, and the anima...
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Herman Melville and the politics of the inhuman / Michael Jonik.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/3018
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74VKVokjEWKb
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1108431097 paperback ; alkaline paper
9781108420921 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1108420923 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781108431095 paperback ; alkaline paper
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813.3
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991024169374402626
