Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman

Michael Jonik

earliest edition we have, 2017 Cambridge University Press, 2018

"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 animate and inanimate. Jonik has us rethink not only how we read Melville,...

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Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman edition · 2018 · Cambridge University Press · 9781108372824
Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman edition · 2018 · Cambridge University Press · 9781108355667
Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman edition · 2018 · Cambridge University Press · 276 pages · 9781108420921
Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman edition · 2017 · Cambridge University Press · 9781108431095

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