After the Subject: Reading "Bartleby" with Sloterdijk.

This article essays the posthumanist charge of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by reading it alongside Peter Sloterdijk's essay "Rules for the Human Park." I propose that the latter's delineation of humanism—as an educative, domesticating project sustained by the cultural cir...

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Published in:	Philosophy & Literature Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23
Main Author:	Villiers, Dawid W. de
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press Apr2026
Subjects:	Humanism Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Subjectivity Posthumanism Literary criticism Philosophers
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