Emily Dickinson and Philosophy

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.

Author: Jed Deppman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/19/2013
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781107029415

About the Author
Deppman, Jed: - Jed Deppman is the Irvin E. Houck Associate Professor in the Humanities at Oberlin College.Noble, Marianne: - Marianne Noble is Associate Professor of Literature at American University.Stonum, Gary Lee: - Gary Lee Stonum is the Oviatt Professor in the English Department of Case Western Reserve University.