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The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture

Autor Paolo Pitari
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 iun 2024
This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his entrapment originates in the "existentialist contradiction": the impossibility of affirming the meaningfulness of life and an ethics of compassion while believing in free will.
To substantiate this thesis, the analysis reads Wallace in conversation with the existentialist philosophers and writers who influenced him: Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. It compares his non-fiction with the sociologies of Christopher Lasch, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, and Anthony Giddens. And it finds inspiration in Giacomo Leopardi, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Emanuele Severino to conclude that the philosophy which pervades Wallace’s works entails despair and represents the essence of our civilization’s interpretation of the world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032676678
ISBN-10: 1032676671
Pagini: 286
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Preface: The problem of free will             
 
Introduction: The problem of free will in David Foster Wallace    
 
Part one: Literary truth according to David Foster Wallace
 
Chapter 1: The influence of Leo Tolstoy’s What Is Art? on David Foster Wallace’s literary project             
 
Chapter 2: The influence of Jean-Paul Sartre’s “What Is Literature?” on David Foster Wallace’s literary project    
 
Part two: The problem of free will in David Foster Wallace’s literary sociology           
 
Chapter 3: The system of David Foster Wallace’s literary sociology            
 
Chapter 4: On narcissism: David Foster Wallace and Christopher Lasch    
 
Chapter 5: On morality and the absurd: David Foster Wallace and Zygmunt Bauman             
 
Chapter 6: On existentialism and capitalism: David Foster Wallace and Ulrich and Elisabeth Beck         
 
Chapter 7: On ontological insecurity: David Foster Wallace and Anthony Giddens             
 
Part three: The problem of free will in David Foster Wallace’s fiction: A comparative reading of Fyodor Dostoevsky and David Foster Wallace      
 
Chapter 8: A critical history of the philosophical criticism on Fyodor Dostoevsky and David Foster Wallace     
 
Chapter 9: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, and David Foster Wallace: United in existentialism
 
Chapter 10: The problem of free will in Crime and Punishment and The Pale King      
 
Bibliography     
 
Index

Notă biografică

Paolo Pitari completed a joint PhD in English at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and at LMU Munich. He is the author of numerous academic articles in literature and philosophy. This research was funded by the University of Venice, the JFK Institute of Freie Universität Berlin, and the DAAD.

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This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his entrapment originates in the ‘existentialist contradiction