Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1108420923
ISBN-13
9781108420921
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 22nd, 2018
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
546 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.60 x 2.40 cms
Ksh 17,800.00
Manufactured on Demand
0 in stock
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Secure
Quality
Fast
Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman offers a bold and innovative take on an enduring figure of American literature, and will interest readers of literary criticism, poetics, philosophy and politics. Jonik has us rethink not only Melville's political philosophy, but also our own deeply inhuman condition.
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.
Get Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Cambridge University Press and it has pages.
