The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture) - Image 1

£140.00

Routledge The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)

Name: The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 140.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Medical, Legal & Social Sciences

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£140 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 79 days · 79 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 79 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £140 (58 days, 73.4%)

Price range: £140 - £151

Price levels: 3 different prices over 79 days

Description

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.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1032676671
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 June 2024
Listed Since: 16 December 2023

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Dialogues on Free Will - Philosophical Book

Free Will

The Philosophy of Will: A Reexamination of Late Modern German Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy)

Theological Perspectives on Free Will - Routledge Studies

The Experimental Approach to Free Will: Freedom in the Laboratory

Routledge Free Will's Value: Criminal Justice, Pride, and Love

The Vindication of the World: Essays on Sanskrit Philosophy

In Defence of Free Will: With other Philosophical Essays (International Library of Philosophy)

Interrogating the Future: Essays in Honour of David Fasenfest: 287 (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 287)

Free Will and Human Agency: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments in Philosophy)

A Plea for Plausibility: Toward a Comparative Decision Theory (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Varieties of Voluntarism in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

The Freedom of Necessity (Routledge Revivals)

Dialogues on the Meaning of Life (Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Problems)

Art and Feminisms: Histories, Methods, and Legacies (Routledge Research in Gender and Art)

Global Governance, Human Rights and International Law: Combating the Tragic Flaw (Routledge Research in International Law)

Sellars and Davidson in Dialogue: Truths, Meanings, and Minds (Routledge Studies in American Philosophy)

Dialogues on Minds, Machines, and AI - Philosophy Book

Freedom and History (Routledge Revivals)

Overcoming Foundations: Studies in Systematic Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

Universals (Central Problems of Philosophy)

Absolute Freedom: Individuation in Modern Societies - Routledge

Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy - Routledge

The World of Freedom: Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology