Fate, Time, and Language

An Essay on Free Will

Szerző: David Foster Wallace

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Columbia University Press

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In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that hum...

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Szerző

David Foster Wallace

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2010

oldal

264

EAN

9780231151566

ISBN

023115156X

Enbook ID

04558853

Kiadó

Columbia University Press

Súly

386

Méretek

140 x 210 x 18

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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 method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but also noted a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's argument. Fate, Time, and Language presents Wallace's brilliant critique of Taylor's work. Written long before the publication of his fiction and essays, 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 certain paradigms of thought-the cerebral aestheticism of modernism, the clever gimmickry of postmodernism-that 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, along with his struggle to establish solid 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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