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In Pursuit of Moby-Dick: Of Whales and Their Gods

Name: In Pursuit of Moby-Dick: Of Whales and Their Gods
Brand: Palgrave MacMillan
SKU: 9783031403569
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Contributors:

Joseph S. Catalano

Publisher:

Palgrave MacMillan

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Literary Criticism, Science

Book Subcategory:

Modern, American, Earth Sciences

Book Topic:

19th Century, Oceanography

Edition Description:

2023 Edition

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Release Date:

2023-09-10

ISBN 13:

9783031403569

Weight:

0.72 lbs

Size:

8.27 x 5.83 x 0.38 inches

Pages:

129

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This study presents Moby-Dick as a novel with three distinct but interconnecting stories: Ishmael's, which he shares ten years after it has taken place; Ahab's, which is Ishmael's account of the memorable captain of a whaling ship; and a third which centres on whales and whaling, which has not received significant critical attention. While each of these perspectives compete for prominence in the narrative, Ahab and Ishmael's stories have often distracted from the vital significance of the whaling narrative as what outlasts Ahab's obsessive mission. Catalano rights this wrong by coming to a strikingly original and thought-provoking conclusion which becomes the heart of the book's argument: "the unity of Melville's book comes, first, from the way the numerous literary, philosophical, and religious reflections are rooted in those magnificent beings, whales and in the men and ships that pursue them, and, second, in the way these reflections illuminate our own lives."

About the Author

Joseph S. Catalono is professor emeritus of philosophy at Kean University, USA. Some of his previous publications include Thinking Matter: Consciousness From Aristotle to Putnam and Sartre (2000), Reading Sartre: An Invitation...(2010), and The Saint and the Atheist: Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre (2021).

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