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Peter Szendy

Prophecies of Leviathan: Reading Past Melville

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Reading Melville is not only reading. Reading Melville means being already engaged in the abyssal process of reading reading. Reading what reading is and what reading does.With Melville, Prophecies of Leviathan argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies (Ishmael seems to foretell a Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States followed by a bloody battle in Afghanistan) but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a unique way.Reading, according t… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Anidjar, Gil (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8232-3153-9
  • EAN: 9780823231539
  • Produktnummer: 4906370
  • Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 395 g
  • Auflage: New
  • Gewicht: 395

Über den Autor


Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University and musicological advisor for the concert programs at the Paris Philharmonie. His books include Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience; All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage; Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World; Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials; Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox; and Listen: A History of Our Ears..

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