The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

Paolo Pitari

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Routledge
27 June 2024

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Phenomenology & Existentialism

Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture

"This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his entrapment originates in the ""existentialist contradiction"": the impossibility of affirming the meaningfulness of life and an ethics of compassion while believing in free will.

To substantiate this thesis, the analysis reads Wallace in conversation with the existentialist philosophers and writers who influenced him: Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. It compares his non-fiction with the sociologies of Christopher Lasch, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, and Anthony Giddens. And it finds inspiration in Giacomo Leopardi, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Emanuele Severino to conclude that the philosophy which pervades Wallace’s works entails despair and represents the essence of our civilization’s interpretation of the world."

By: Paolo Pitari
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032676678
ISBN 10: 1032676671
Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 27 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paolo Pitari completed a joint PhD in English at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and at LMU Munich. He is the author of numerous academic articles in literature and philosophy. This research was funded by the University of Venice, the JFK Institute of Freie Universität Berlin, and the DAAD.

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The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

Paolo Pitari

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