Emily Dickinson and Philosophy
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Emily Dickinson and Philosophy

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Emily Dickinson and Philosophy

About this book

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781107029415
eBook ISBN
9781107352810
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I Dickinson and the Philosophy of Her Time
  5. Chapter 1 Emily Dickinson: Anatomist of the Mind
  6. Chapter 2 Dickinson, Hume, and the Common Sense Legacy
  7. Chapter 3 Outgrowing Genesis? Dickinson, Darwin, and the Higher Criticism
  8. Chapter 4 Touching the Wounds: Emily Dickinson and Christology
  9. Chapter 5 Against Mastery: Dickinson Contra Hegel and Schlegel
  10. Chapter 6 “Perfect from the Pod”: Instant Learning in Dickinson and Kierkegaard
  11. Part II Dickinson and Modern Philosophy
  12. Chapter 7 Truth and Lie in Emily Dickinson and Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. Chapter 8 Emily Dickinson, Pragmatism, and the Conquests of Mind
  14. Chapter 9 Dickinson and Sartre on Facing the Brutality of Brute Existence
  15. Chapter 10 Dickinson on Perception and Consciousness: A Dialogue with Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  16. Chapter 11 The Infinite in Person: Levinas and Dickinson
  17. Chapter 12: Astonished Thinking: Dickinson and Heidegger
  18. Bibliography
  19. Citation Index
  20. Subject Index

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