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245 10 a| Herman Melville and neurodiversity, or Why hunt difference with harpoons? :b| a primitivist phenomenology /c| Pilar Martínez Benedí and Ralph James Savarese.;

264 1 a| London :b| Bloomsbury Academic,c| 2024.;

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490 1 a| Explorations in Science and Literature;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: Far borders -- Hard of meaning: Suspicious sensing in "The Apple-Tree Table" and The Confidence-Man -- Phantom empathy: Ahab, race, and mirror-touch synesthesia -- "First Principles" : animism in Pierre -- Billy Fo(u)wl : Stuttering and the perverse triumph of te perceptual -- Afterword: I and my neurological difference.;

520 a| Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sought to reclaim the fluid world of the sensory, with its precategorical and radically egalitarian impulses. By studying this previously underexamined facet of Melville’s work, this book offers an essential corrective to the “pathology paradigm,” which demonizes departures from a neurological norm and feasts on pejorative categorization. The neurodiversity movement arose precisely as a response to how so-called “mental disorders” have been described, understood, and treated. Unlike standard neuroscientific or psychiatric investigation, Melville’s work doesn’t strive to explain typical functioning through the negative and, in the process, to shore up a regime of normalcy. To the contrary, it exploits the lack of congealed diagnoses in the 19th Century, much more neutrally asking the question: what can an atypical body-mind do? Steeped in current studies about autism, Alzheimer’s, Capgras and Fregoli syndromes, Mirror-touch synesthesia, phantom limb syndrome, stuttering, and tinnitus, and fully conversant with Melville scholarship, Phenomenological Primitives demonstrates what the humanities can contribute to the sciences and what the sciences can contribute to the humanities;

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Herman Melville and neurodiversity, or Why hunt difference with harpoons? : a primitivist phenomenology / Pilar Martínez Benedí and Ralph James Savarese.

Author/creator	Martinez Benedí, Pilar author.
Other author	Savarese, Ralph James, author.
Format	Book
Publication	London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Description	189 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation. Neurodiversity. Phenomenology.

Series	Explorations in Science and Literature Explorations in science and literature. ^A1412211
Contents	Introduction: Far borders -- Hard of meaning: Suspicious sensing in "The Apple-Tree Table" and The Confidence-Man -- Phantom empathy: Ahab, race, and mirror-touch synesthesia -- "First Principles" : animism in Pierre -- Billy Fo(u)wl : Stuttering and the perverse triumph of te perceptual -- Afterword: I and my neurological difference.
Abstract	Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sought to reclaim the fluid world of the sensory, with its precategorical and radically egalitarian impulses. By studying this previously underexamined facet of Melville’s work, this book offers an essential corrective to the “pathology paradigm,” which demonizes departures from a neurological norm and feasts on pejorative categorization. The neurodiversity movement arose precisely as a response to how so-called “mental disorders” have been described, understood, and treated. Unlike standard neuroscientific or psychiatric investigation, Melville’s work doesn’t strive to explain typical functioning through the negative and, in the process, to shore up a regime of normalcy. To the contrary, it exploits the lack of congealed diagnoses in the 19th Century, much more neutrally asking the question: what can an atypical body-mind do? Steeped in current studies about autism, Alzheimer’s, Capgras and Fregoli syndromes, Mirror-touch synesthesia, phantom limb syndrome, stuttering, and tinnitus, and fully conversant with Melville scholarship, Phenomenological Primitives demonstrates what the humanities can contribute to the sciences and what the sciences can contribute to the humanities
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Electronic version: Benedi, Pilar Martinez. Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?. 1st ed. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 9781350360891
ISBN	9781350360860
ISBN	1350360864

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