Erscheint: Oktober 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Melville’s (Dis)Orders
Four Transatlantic Dialogues on Essence, Existence, and the Truth of Things
Verlag:
Taylor & Francis Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35929452
EAN: 9781041162070
Erscheint: Oktober 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
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Beschreibung
Melville's (Dis)Orders. offers a dialogical re-reading of Herman Melville as a thinker of moral, political, and existential disorder, tracing how his literary imagination confronts authority, law, violence, and ethical responsibility in modernity. Combining literary analysis with philosophical reflection, this book advances a dual-voiced, dialogical approach to Melville's oeuvre, which brings literary studies into sustained conversations with ethics, political thought, theology, and intellectual history. Moving beyond thematic interpretation, the authors read Melville as a diagnostician of modernity's fractures, where sovereignty falters, legal order destabilizes, and moral judgment becomes precarious. Through close readings of major and lesser-known texts, the volume offers scholars a conceptually rigorous framework for understanding Melville's relevance to debates on authority, responsibility, friendship, and post- theological ethics, while modeling dialogic scholarship as a critical method. This book is written primarily for scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, Melville studies, American Romanticism, and comparative literature, as well as philosophers, intellectual historians, and scholars of religion interested in ethics, secularization, and dialogic thought. It will also be of value to postgraduate and doctoral students, advanced undergraduates in specialized seminars, and educators seeking interdisciplinary, research- driven resources on Melville's ethical imagination.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Paweł Jędrzejko
- Matteson John
Zielgruppe
- Academic and Postgraduate
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 304