Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will - Brossura

Wallace, David Foster

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ISBN 10: 0231151578 ISBN 13: 9780231151573

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's methods, but also noted a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's argument.

Fate, Time, and Language presents Wallace's critique of Taylor's work. Wallace's thesis reveals his great skepticism of abstract thinking made to function as a negation of something more genuine and real. He was especially suspicious of the cerebral aestheticism of modernism and the clever gimmickry of postmodernism, which abandoned "the very old traditional human verities that have to do with spirituality and emotion and community." As Wallace rises to meet the challenge to free will presented by Taylor, we witness the developing perspective of this major novelist and his struggle to establish logical ground for his convictions.

This volume, edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert, reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace. James Ryerson's introduction connects Wallace's early philosophical work to the themes and explorations of his later fiction, and Jay Garfield supplies a critical biographical epilogue.

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L'autore:

David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) wrote the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest andThe Broom of the System and the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, andGirl with Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes the essay collections Consider the Lobster andA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and the full-length work Everything and More.

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Book by Wallace David Foster

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• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0231151578
• ISBN 13: 9780231151573
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 252