Gesturing Toward Reality David Foster Wallace and Philosophy 1st Edition by Robert Bolger, Scott Korb ISBN 9781441192066 1441192069
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ISBN 10: 1441192069
ISBN 13: 9781441192066
Author: Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb
Asked in 2006 about the philosophical nature of his fiction, the late American writer David Foster Wallace replied, “If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.”
Gesturing Toward Reality looks into this quality of Wallace’s work―when the writer dons the philosopher’s cap―and sees something else. With essays offering a careful perusal of Wallace’s extensive and heavily annotated self-help library, re-considerations of Wittgenstein’s influence on his fiction, and serious explorations into the moral and spiritual landscape where Wallace lived and wrote, this collection offers a perspective on Wallace that even he was not always ready to see. Since so much has been said in specifically literary circles about Wallace’s philosophical acumen, it seems natural to have those with an interest in both philosophy and Wallace’s writing address how these two areas come together.
Table of contents:
Love, and What You Will, Do: An Introduction Scott Korb
1 How We Ought To Do Things with Words Alexis Burgess
2 The Subsurface Unity of All Things, or David Foster Wallace’s Free Will Leland de la Durantaye
3 A Less “Bullshitty” Way To Live: The Pragmatic Spirituality of David Foster Wallace Robert K. Bolger
4 This Is Water and Religious Self-Deception Kevin Timpe
5 Inside David Foster Wallace’s Head: Attention, Loneliness, Suicide, and the Other Side of Boredom Andrew Bennett
6 The Lobster Considered Robert C. Jones
7 The Terrible Master: David Foster Wallace and the Suffering of Consciousness (with guest Arthur Schopenhauer) Blakey Vermeule
8 Philosophy, Self-Help, and the Death of David Wallace Maria Bustillos
9 Untrendy Problems: The Pale King’s Philosophical Inspirations Jon Baskin
10 The Formative Years: David Foster Wallace’s Philosophical Influences and The Broom of the System Thomas Tracey
11 Beyond Philosophy: David Foster Wallace on Literature, Wittgenstein, and the Dangers of Theorizing Randy Ramal
12 Good Faith and Sincerity: Sartrean Virtues of Self-Becoming in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Allard den Dulk
13 Theories of Everything and More: Infinity is Not the End Ryan David Mullins
14 Does Language Fail Us? Wallace’s Struggle with Solipsism Patrick Horn
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