Understanding Edgar Allan Poe

They Who Dream by Day

Ermanno Bencivenga (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

121 Seiten

2023 | New edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-5082-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Many of Edgar Allan Poe’s characters go through extreme, exhilarating, horrific experiences, and report on them. But how can we trust such reports, as under those circumstances they must have gone out of their minds? Through an all-encompassing, minute analysis of the entirety of Poe’s work, both his fiction and his nonfiction, this book argues that descending into a gigantic whirlpool, or being tormented by the Inquisition or by bloodthirsty natives, are only indications of what it takes to encounter others in everyday life. To understand them, we must in all cases go out of our minds, enter theirs, and sense the horror of what it would be to be lost there. And then, for as long as we are able, stay on the threshold between our world and theirs, suspended, receiving a presage, a summons, from a mysterious destiny that will have no resolution.

Autor

Ermanno Bencivenga is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of California, USA. The author of seventy books in three languages and of over one hundred scholarly articles, he was the founding editor of the international philosophy journal Topoi for thirty years, and of the Topoi Library. Among his titles in English are Kant’s Copernican Revolution (1987), The Discipline of Subjectivity: An Essay on Montaigne (1990), Logic and Other Nonsense: The Case of Anselm and His God (1993), Hegel’s Dialectical Logic (2000), Ethics Vindicated: Kant’s Transcendental Legitimation of Moral Discourse (2007), and Theories of the Logos (2017).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2023
• Verlagsort: Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 212 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• ISBN-10: 1-5275-5082-6 / 1527550826
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-5082-7 / 9781527550827
• Zustand: Neuware