Emily Dickinson and Philosophy

Jed Deppman is the Irvin E. Houck Associate Professor in the Humanities at Oberlin College. Marianne Noble is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. Gary Lee Stonum is the Oviatt Professor in the English Department of Case Western Reserve University.

This book shows how Emily Dickinson used philosophy in her poetry and anticipated later philosophical movements.

Introduction Marianne Noble, Jed Deppman and Gary Lee Stonum; Part I. Dickinson and the Philosophy of her Time: 1. Emily Dickinson: anatomist of the mind Michael Kearns; 2. Dickinson, Hume, and the common sense legacy Melanie Hubbard; 3. Outgrowing genesis? Dickinson, Darwin, and the higher criticism Jane Eberwein; 4. Touching the wounds: Dickinson and Christology Linda Freedman; 5. Against mastery: Dickinson contra Hegel and Schlegel Daniel Fineman; 6. Perfect from the pod: instant learning in Dickinson and Kierkegaard Jim von der Heydt; Part II. Dickinson and Modern Philosophy: 7. Truth and lie in Emily Dickinson and Friedrich Nietzsche Shira Wolosky; 8. Emily Dickinson, pragmatism, and the conquests of mind Renee Tursi; 9. Dickinson and Sartre on facing the brutality of brute existence Farhang Erfani; 10. Dickinson on perception and consciousness: a dialogue with Merleau-Ponty Marianne Noble; 11. The infinite in person: Levinas and Dickinson Megan Craig; 12. Astonished thinking: Dickinson and Heidegger Jed Deppman; Bibliography; Index.