Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man - Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Re (Marx/Third Millennium) - Softcover

Goldner, Loren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970030827 ISBN 13: 9780970030825

Publisher: Queequeg Publications, 2005

Synopsis

In Europe, after 1848, bourgeois consciousness in revolt sought a new universal in the working class but soon found itself in the orbit of the state civil service; in America, bourgeois consciousness in revolt found a new universal in what Melville called “antemosaic” reality, Queequeg, embodied in the multiracial working class, the “anacharsis Cloots deputation,” in radical antithesis to the state. Through a series of scholarly, linked essays, Goldner examines the works of Melville, the dispossessed grand bourgeois, and his treatment of race and class. The 1848-1850 conjuncture in the Atlantic world witnessed the birth of communism (Marx), modern art (Courbet, Flaubert), the end of classical political economy, and the formulation of the entropy law, or Second Law of Thermodynamics. Their simultaneity was not accidental, and Melville’s work echoes each of them. Echoing the work of CLR James, this is a majestic, multidisciplinary sweep through history, culture, politics, philosophy and art.

About this title

About the Author:

Loren Goldner is a writer and activist living in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Queequeg Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0970030827
• ISBN 13: 9780970030825
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292