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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn
Part I. Ontologies
1. Sailing without Ahab
2. Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales
3. Ahab after Agency
4. Thinking with a Wrinkled Brow; or, Herman Melville, Catherine Malabou, and the Brains of New Materialism
Part II. Relations
5. Phantom Empathy: Ahab and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia
6. Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain
7. “The King Is a Thing”; or, Ahab as Subject of the Unconscious: A Lacanian Materialist Reading
8. Approaching Ahab Blind
Part III. Politics
9. “This Post-Mortemizing of the Whale”: The Vapors of Materialism, New and Old
10. Ahab’s Electromagnetic Constitution
11. The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and the Matter of Monomania
12. Diet on the Pequod and the Wreck of Reason
Part IV. New Melvilles
13. Ahab’s After-Life: The Tortoises of “The Encantadas”
14. Israel Potter; or, The Excrescence
15. Melville, Materiality, and the Social Hieroglyphics of Leisure and Labor
16. Melville’s Basement Tapes
Afterword: Melville among the Materialists
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
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