Emily Dickinson and Philosophy
- Editors:
- Jed Deppman, Oberlin College, Ohio
- Marianne Noble, American University
- Gary Lee Stonum, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
- Date Published: November 2013
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107029415
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Emily Dickinson's poetry is deeply philosophical. Recognizing that conventional language limited her thought and writing, Dickinson created new poetic forms to pursue the moral and intellectual issues that mattered most to her. This collection situates Dickinson within the rapidly evolving intellectual culture of her time and explores the degree to which her groundbreaking poetry anticipated trends in twentieth-century thought. Essays aim to clarify the ideas at stake in Dickinson's poems by reading them in the context of one or more relevant philosophers, including near-contemporaries such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Hegel, and later philosophers whose methods are implied in her poetry, including Levinas, Sartre and Heidegger. The Dickinson who emerges is a curious, open-minded interpreter of how human beings make sense of the world - one for whom poetry is a component of a lifelong philosophical project.
Read more- This is the first text to demonstrate the depth of Dickinson's philosophical thinking in a wide range of philosophical areas
- Shows a broad range of ways in which Dickinson's poetry can be interpreted as philosophy
- Rigorously compares Dickinson's thinking explicitly with that of numerous philosophers and philosophical movements
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- Date Published: November 2013
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107029415
- length: 278 pages
- dimensions: 239 x 155 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Marianne Noble, Jed Deppman and Gary Lee Stonum
Part I. Dickinson and the Philosophy of her Time:
1. Emily Dickinson: anatomist of the mind Michael Kearns
2. Dickinson, Hume, and the common sense legacy Melanie Hubbard
3. Outgrowing genesis? Dickinson, Darwin, and the higher criticism Jane Eberwein
4. Touching the wounds: Dickinson and Christology Linda Freedman
5. Against mastery: Dickinson contra Hegel and Schlegel Daniel Fineman
6. Perfect from the pod: instant learning in Dickinson and Kierkegaard Jim von der Heydt
Part II. Dickinson and Modern Philosophy:
7. Truth and lie in Emily Dickinson and Friedrich Nietzsche Shira Wolosky
8. Emily Dickinson, pragmatism, and the conquests of mind Renee Tursi
9. Dickinson and Sartre on facing the brutality of brute existence Farhang Erfani
10. Dickinson on perception and consciousness: a dialogue with Merleau-Ponty Marianne Noble
11. The infinite in person: Levinas and Dickinson Megan Craig
12. Astonished thinking: Dickinson and Heidegger Jed Deppman
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