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For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s
writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been
relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically
significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to
Melville in particular. This volume addresses this silence through
a series of essays that: (1) examine various philosophical contexts
for Melville’s work, (2) take seriously Melville’s writings as
philosophy, and (3) consider how modern philosophers have used
Melville and the implications of appropriating Melville for
contemporary thought. Melville among the Philosophers is ultimately
an intervention across literary studies and philosophy that carves
new paths into the work of one of America’s most celebrated
authors, a man who continues to enchant and challenge readers well
into the twenty-first century.
Marxism and Phenomenology: The Dialectical Horizons of Critique,
edited by Bryan Smyth and Richard Westerman, offers new
perspectives on the possibility of a philosophical outlook that
combines Marxism and phenomenology in the critique of capitalism.
Although Marxism's focus on impersonal social structures and
phenomenology's concern with lived experience can make these
traditions appear conceptually incompatible, the potential critical
force of a theoretical reconciliation inspired several attempts in
the twentieth century to articulate a phenomenological Marxism.
Updating and extending this approach, the contributors to this
volume identify and develop new and previously overlooked
connections between the traditions, offering new perspectives on
Marx, Husserl, and Heidegger; exploring themes such as alienation,
reification, and ecology; and examining the intersection of Marxism
and phenomenology in figures such as Michel Henry, Walter Benjamin,
and Frantz Fanon. These glimpses of a productive reconciliation of
the respective strengths of phenomenology and Marxism offer
promising possibilities for illuminating and resolving the
increasingly intense social crises of capitalism in the
twenty-first century.
For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville's
writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been
relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically
significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to
Melville in particular. This volume addresses this silence through
a series of essays that: (1) examine various philosophical contexts
for Melville's work, (2) take seriously Melville's writings as
philosophy, and (3) consider how modern philosophers have used
Melville and the implications of appropriating Melville for
contemporary thought. Melville among the Philosophers is ultimately
an intervention across literary studies and philosophy that carves
new paths into the work of one of America's most celebrated
authors, a man who continues to enchant and challenge readers well
into the twenty-first century.
In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity,
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the
interrelated concepts of "victim" and "survivor" as they have been
ideologically distorted in Western thought. Nissim-Sabat proposes
that a phenomenological attitude empowers us to overcome the
anti-human consequences of both victimization of individuals and
peoples and the ideological distortions of concepts that help to
perpetuate that victimization.
Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy explores the range of
ways in which Frantz Fanon's decolonization theory can reveal new
answers to perennial philosophical questions and new paths to
social justice. The aim is to show not just that Fanon's thought
remains philosophically relevant, but that it is relevant to an
even wider range of philosophical issues than has previously been
realized. The essays in this book are written by both renowned
Fanon scholars and new scholars who are emerging as experts in
aspects of Fanonian thought as diverse as humanistic psychiatry,
the colonial roots of racial violence and marginalization, and
decolonizing possibilities in law, academia, and tourism. In
addition to examining philosophical concerns that arise from
political decolonization movements, many of the essays turn to the
discipline of philosophy itself and take up the challenge of
suggesting ways that philosophy might liberate itself from colonial
and colonizing assumptions. This collection will be useful to those
interested in political theory, feminist theory, existentialism,
phenomenology, Africana studies, and Caribbean philosophy. Its
Fanon-inspired vision of social justice is endorsed in the foreword
by his daughter, Mireille Fanon-Mendes France, a noted human rights
defender in the French-speaking world."
In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity,
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the
interrelated concepts of "victim" and "survivor" as they have been
ideologically distorted in Western thought. Framed by the
phenomenological perspective of Edmund Husserl, Nissim-Sabat
carries out her argument through an intense engagement with current
scholarly work on Toni Morrison's Beloved, Sophocles' Antigone,
akrasia, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, feminist philosophy
of science, and Marxism. Nissim-Sabat ultimately proposes that a
new consciousness, enabled by the phenomenological attitude, of the
way in which ideological distortion of the concepts of 'victim' and
'survivor' helps to perpetuate victimization will empower us to
find ways to end victimization and its anti-human consequences. The
book's interdisciplinary approach will make it appealing to a broad
range of students and scholars alike.
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