{"product_id":"reading-david-foster-wallace-between-philosophy-and-literature-9781526172327","title":"Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book breaks new ground by showing that the work of David Foster Wallace originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature. Philosophy is not a mere supplement to or decoration of his writing, nor does he use literature to illustrate pre-established philosophical truths. Rather, for Wallace, philosophy and literature are intertwined ways of experiencing and expressing the world that emerge from and amplify each other. The book does not advance a fixed or homogenous interpretation of Wallace’s oeuvre but instead offers an investigative approach that allows for a variety of readings. The volume features fourteen new essays by prominent and promising Wallace scholars, divided into three parts: one on general aspects of Wallace’s oeuvre – such as his aesthetics, form, and engagement with performance – and two parts with thematic focuses, namely ‘Consciousness, Self, and Others’ and ‘Embodiment, Gender, and Sexuality’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature – Allard den Dulk, Pia Masiero and Adriano Ardovino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: General perspectives \u003cbr\u003e1 Absorbing art: the Hegelian project of \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e – Adam Kelly \u003cbr\u003e2 Stages, Socrates, and the performer stripped bare: David Foster Wallace as philosopher-dramatist – Jeffrey Severs\u003cbr\u003e3 ‘A matter of perspective’: ‘Good Old Neon’ between literature and philosophy – Adriano Ardovino and Pia Masiero\u003cbr\u003e4 The influence of Christopher Lasch’s \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Narcissism\u003c\/i\u003e on David Foster Wallace – Paolo Pitari\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Consciousness, self and others \u003cbr\u003e5 ‘What all she’d so painfully learned said about her’: a comparative reading of David Foster Wallace’s ‘The Depressed Person’ and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e – Allard den Dulk\u003cbr\u003e6 \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e’s ‘trinity of you and I into we’: Wallace’s ‘click’ between Joyce’s literary consubstantiality and Wittgenstein’s family resemblance – Dominik Steinhilber\u003cbr\u003e7 Solipsism, loneliness, alienation: David Foster Wallace as interpreter of Wittgenstein – Guido Baggio\u003cbr\u003e8 ‘This is just my opinion’: modelling a public sphere in \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e – Daniel South \u003cbr\u003e9 Pioneers of consciousness: hypothesis for a diptych – Lorenzo Marchese \u003cbr\u003e10 The problem of other minds in ‘Good Old Neon’ – Matt Prout \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Embodiment, gender and sexuality \u003cbr\u003e11 ‘I am in here’: David Foster Wallace and the body as object – Clare Hayes-Brady \u003cbr\u003e12 ‘The interstices of her sense of something’: David Foster Wallace, the quest for affect, and the future of gendered interactions – Mara Mattoscio\u003cbr\u003e13 ‘You are loved’: race, love, and language in early Wallace – Lola Boorman \u003cbr\u003e14 ‘They remain just bodies’: on pornography in David Foster Wallace (1989–2006) – Chiara Scarlato\u003cbr\u003e15 ‘Something staring back at you’: an anamorphic reading of Infinite Jest – Angelo Maria Grossi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041040564567,"sku":"9781526172327","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526172327.jpg?v=1750948712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-david-foster-wallace-between-philosophy-and-literature-9781526172327","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}