Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn by Meredith Farmer & Jonathan D. S. Schroeder

Author:Meredith Farmer & Jonathan D. S. Schroeder [Farmer, Meredith & Schroeder, Jonathan D. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT004020 Literary Criticism / American / General
ISBN: 9781452961095
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2022-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

29. But it doesn’t tell, as Melville notes in Chapter 92: “Living or dead, if but decently treated, whales as a species are by no means creatures of ill odour; nor can whalemen be recognized, as the people of the middle ages affected to detect a Jew in the company, by the nose” (410).

30. For the sake of argument, I assume here the more conventional and still influential readings of Hobbes rather than the intelligent commentaries of those (like Michael Oakeshott and Richard Flathman) who see Hobbes as a defender of individuality, or of Samantha Frost, who makes the case for reading Hobbes as a materialist. Oakeshott, “Introduction to Leviathan,” in Hobbes on Civil Association (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000), 1–79; Flathman, Thomas Hobbes: Skepticism, Individuality and Chastened Politics (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1993); Frost, Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008).

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