Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled.

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, e

"Brings together some of the most eminent Melville scholars in academia today in the first book devoted to exploring Melville and philosophy"--

One Foot in the Finite inspires a radical shift in our view of Melville’s project in Moby-Dick, for its guiding notion is that Melville uses his book to call

This challenging and timely study demonstrates that the problems Melville faced as a writer - the relationship between politics and aesthetics and the represent