Jon Baskin

Ordinary Unhappiness

The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book approaches David Foster Wallace not only as a fiction writer but also as a cultural critic and a moral philosopher whose formal innovations were intended as "therapies" for the pervasive dis-eases of our time.

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Produktdetails

• Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 136mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781503609303
• ISBN-10: 1503609308
• Artikelnr.: 53538764

Autorenporträt

Jon Baskin is the Associate Director of the Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program at the New School for Social Research and a founding editor of The Point.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Habits of Mind
1. Narrative Morality: On Philosophically Therapeutic Criticism
2. Playing Games: Infinite Jest as Philosophical Therapy
3. So Decide: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men as Philosophical Criticism
4. Untrendy Problems: The Pale King's Philosophical Inspirations
Conclusion: In Heaven and Earth