Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn
Meredith Farmer
Part I. Ontologies
1. Sailing without Ahab
Steve Mentz
2. Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales
Branka Arsić
3. Ahab after Agency
Mark D. Noble
4. Thinking with a Wrinkled Brow; or, Herman Melville, Catherine Malabou, and the Brains of New Materialism
Christian P. Haines
Part II. Relations
5. Phantom Empathy: Ahab and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia
Pilar Martínez Benedí and Ralph James Savarese
6. Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain
Michael D. Snediker
7.‘The King is a Thing’; or, Ahab as Subject of the Unconscious: A Lacanian Materialist Reading
Russell Sbriglia
8. Approaching Ahab Blind
Christopher Castiglia
Part III. Politics
9. ‘this post-mortemizing of the whale’: The Vapors of Materialism, New and Old
Bonnie Honig
10.Ahab’s Electromagnetic Constitution
Donald E. Pease
11. The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and the Matter of Monomania
Jonathan D. S. Schroeder
12. Diet on the Pequod and the Wreck of Reason
Jonathan Lamb
Part IV. New Melvilles
13. Ahab’s After-Life: The Tortoises of ‘The Encantadas’
Matthew A. Taylor
14. Israel Potter; or, the Excrescence
Colin Dayan
15.Melville, Materiality, and the Social Hieroglyphics of Leisure and Labor
Ivy Wilson
16. Melville’s Basement Tapes
John Modern
Afterword: Melville Among the Materialists
Samuel Otter
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index