{"product_id":"melvilles-philosophies-paperback","title":"Melville's Philosophies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBranka Arsic\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eK. L. Evans\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelville's Philosophies\u003c\/i\u003e departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville never stopped articulating and reformulating. What emerges is a Melville who is materialistically oriented in a radical way, a Melville who thinks about life forms not just in the context of contemporary sciences but also ontologically. \u003ci\u003eMelville's Philosophies\u003c\/i\u003e recovers a Melville who is a thinker of great caliber, which means obliquely but dramatically reversing the way the critical tradition has characterized his ideas. Finally, as a result of the readings collected here, Melville emerges as a very relevant thinker for contemporary philosophical concerns, such as the materialist turn, climate change, and post-humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBranka Arsic\u003c\/b\u003e is Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBird Relics, Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard, 2015), \u003ci\u003eOn Leaving, A Reading in Emerson \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), \u003ci\u003ePassive Constitutions or 71\/2 Times Bartleby \u003c\/i\u003e(2007). She is co-editor (with Cary Wolfe) of \u003ci\u003eThe Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and editor of\u003ci\u003e The American Impersonal\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eK. L. Evans \u003c\/b\u003eis Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Cornell University, USA. Previously she was Associate Professor of Literature and Philosophy at Yeshiva University in New York City. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhale!\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and \u003ci\u003eOne Foot in the Finite: Melville's Realism Reclaimed\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming 2017).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 424\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 27, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336750219513,"sku":"9781501347504","price":86.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/sDN-Zk1mJ39781501347504.webp?v=1769671049","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/melvilles-philosophies-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}