Emily Dickinson and Philosophy

Edited by Jed Deppman, Marianne Noble, and Gary Lee Stonum, "Emily Dickinson and Philosophy" presents a series of essays that read Dickinson’s poetry as a sustained philosophical project.

Arguing that Dickinson devised new poetic forms to overcome the limits of conventional language, the volume places her work in the context of nineteenth-century and modern philosophy, including figures such as Hume, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, and Heidegger.

The contributors explore how Dickinson’s poems probe questions of mind, self, ethics, faith, and meaning, revealing a poet deeply engaged with how human beings make sense of the world and anticipating key currents in twentieth-century thought.