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Ahab's Charisma: Captains, Kings, and Prophets
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 51–62.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Niels Werber The charisma of Ahab, captain of Herman Melville's famous whale-hunting vessel Pequod , is a well-established topic of inquiry in various disciplines. His charismatic leadership has been described with the help of Max Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft , deciphered as anticipating...
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Introduction
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2011
... extraordinariness and a prophetic gift but
also marked by an excess of violence and monomania, making—as Niels Wer-
ber demonstrates—of Herman Melville’s Ahab a prime example of charismatic
leadership. In a way, the madness and excess of charisma ape the uncontrolla-
ble dynamics of agitated crowds...
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A Supernatural History of Destruction; or, Thomas Pynchon's Berlin
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 49–72.
Published: 01 August 2010
... white whale. In one of his existential soliloquies, Ahab declares
that “all visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks,” using this image
of pasteboard to identify that flimsy surface separating himself from the
object he hates most of all in the universe.32 For both Herman Melville...
