Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson
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affect and cognition
alternative models of understanding
American intellectual history
American women thinkers
Author_Jed Deppman
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cognitive frameworks in writing
conceptual experimentation
conceptual hybridity
debates over truth and interpretation
Enlightenment influence on writers
epistemic uncertainty
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experimental thought structures
hermeneutic experimentation
history of ideas in American letters
imaginative reasoning
influence of European philosophy on American writers
intellectual lineage of poets
interpretive plurality
interpretive theory
intersections of poetry and theory
knowledge formation in literature
language theory in creative works
literary engagements with idealism
literary hermeneutics
literary innovation in the long nineteenth century
literary responses to modernity
lyric philosophy
metaphysical inquiry in verse
mind and meaning in poetry
modern thought and classic texts
nineteenth-century education
philosophical individuality
philosophical poetics
philosophical readings of lyric forms
philosophical tensions in creative expression
poetic critique of authority
poetic engagements with modern philos
poetic engagements with science
poetic epistemology
poetic phenomenology
proto-postmodern sensibilities
radical reinterpretation of tradition
reason and imagination
reconceiving intellectual tradition
religious skepticism in literature
shifting paradigms of truth
skepticism and belief in poetry
theories of perception in literature
transatlantic intellectual networks
women and knowledge
Product details
- ISBN 9781558496842
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 147 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 23 Dec 2008
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a bold exploration of Emily Dickinson as a major figure in the history of American ideas. This book presents Emily Dickinson as one of America's great thinkers and argues that she has even more to say to the twenty-first century than she did to the nineteenth. Jed Deppman weaves together many strands in Dickinson's intellectual culture - philosophy, lexicography, religion, experimental science, the female Bildungsroman - and shows how she developed a lyricized, conversational hermeneutics uniquely suited to rethinking the authoritative discourses of her time.Through Deppman's original analysis, readers come to see how Dickinson's mind and poetry were informed by two strong but opposing philosophical vocabularies: on the one hand, the Lockean materialism and Scottish Common Sense that dominated her schoolbooks in logic and mental philosophy - Reid, Hedge, Watts, Stewart, Brown, and Upham - and on the other, the neo-Kantian modes of apprehending the supersensible that circulated throughout German idealism and Transcendentalism.Blending close readings with philosophical and historical approaches, Deppman affirms Dickinson's place in the history of ideas and brings her to the center of postmodern conversations initiated by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, and Gianni Vattimo. Trying her out in various postmodern roles - the Nietzschean accomplished nihilist, the Nancian finite thinker, the Vattimian weak thinker, and the Rortian liberal ironist - Deppman adds to the traditional expressive functions of her poetry a valuable, timely, and interpretable layer of philosophical inquiry. Dickinson, it turns out, is an ideal companion for anybody trying to think in the contemporary conditions that Vattimo characterizes as the 'weakened experience of truth'.
JED DEPPMAN is Irvin E. Houck Associate Professor in the Humanities and director of comparative literature at Oberlin College. His work on this book received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Emily Dickinson International Society.
