Zen and the White Whale
Lehigh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61146-156-5 (ISBN)
In Moby-Dick’s wide philosophical musings and central narrative arch, Daniel Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence, Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have read or that there is a strong likelihood of his having come across, as well as offering a more expansive consideration of Moby-Dick from a Zen Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern teachings. But not only does the book delve deeply into one of the few aspects of Moby-Dick’s construction left unexplored by scholars, it also conceives of an entirely new way of reading the greatest of American books—offering critical re-considerations of many of its most crucial and contentious issues, while focusing on what Melville has to teach us about coping with adversity, respecting ideological diversity, and living skillfully in a fickle, slippery world.
Daniel Herman teaches American literature at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Melville’s Encounters with Buddhism
1. The Prologue to Buddhist Studies
2. A Universal Absorber
3. Bayle’s Dictionary
4. Possibilities and Probabilities
5. Mardi and Other Mysteries
Part 2: Ishmael’s Way-Seeking Mind
6. Groundlessness
7. Narcissus and Dongshan
8. Searching for Ishmael
9. Whaling Life, Monastic Life
10. Ishmael’s Meditation
11. Impermanence and Interdependence
12. Philosophy, Koans, and Silence
Part 3: Moby Dick’s Inscrutable Selflessness
13. Sarcastic Science
14. The First Principle of All Things
15. Whiteness
16. The Measurements of the Whale Skeleton
17. Ox-Herding
Part 4: Captain Ahab’s Universe
18. A Factionalized Consciousness
19. Savagery Beyond Savagery
20. Faith and the Three Mates
21. The Doubloon
22. Pip, Who Jumped from a Whale-Boat
23. Ahab’s Awakening
24. Pacific
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
| Verlagsort | Cranbury |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 467 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-61146-156-1 / 1611461561 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-61146-156-5 / 9781611461565 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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