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Title Emily Dickinson and philosophy / edited by Jed Deppman, Oberlin College, Marianne Noble, American University, Gary Lee Stonum, Case Western Reserve University.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 270 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 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; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
Criticism and interpretation.
Philosophy in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Noble, Marianne, 1968- editor.
Deppman, Jed, editor.
Stonum, Gary Lee, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Emily Dickinson and philosophy 9781107029415 (DLC) 2012041991 (OCoLC)811963805
ISBN 9781107341944 (electronic book)
1107341949 (electronic book)
9781107029415
1107029414