Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Melville's silence / Corey McCall & Tom Nurmi
  • Melville as philosopher. "In voiceless visagelessness": the disenchanted landscape of Clarel / Troy Jollimore
  • Platonic and Nietzschean themes of transformation in Moby-Dick / Mark Anderson
  • Passion, reverie, disaster, joy: what philosophers learn at sea / Edward F. Mooney
  • Outlandish lands: Melville's Pierre and the democratic ambiguity of space and time / Jason M. Wirth
  • Beasts, sovereigns, pirates: Melville's "enchanted isles" beyond the picturesque / Gary Shapiro
  • On religion and the strangeness of speech: typee as a "peep" / Tracy B. Strong
  • Inheriting Melville. Melville's phenomenology of gender: critical reflections on C.L.R. James' mariners, renegades, castaways and Paget Henry's Caliban's reason / Marilyn Nissim-Sabat
  • Decolonial options in Moby-Dick / Kris Sealey
  • "Benito Cereno", or, the American chronotope of slavery / Eduardo Mendieta
  • The European authorization of American literature and philosophy: after Cavell, reading Bartleby with Deleuze, then Rancière / David Larocca
  • Afterword. Afterword: a time to break the philosophic silencing of Melville / Cornel West