Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy 1st Edition by Robert K. Bolger (PDF)

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Asked in 2006 about the philosophical nature of his fiction, the late American writer David Foster Wallace replied, “If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.”Gesturing Toward Reality looks into this quality of Wallace’s work-when the writer dons the philosopher’s cap-and sees something else. With essays offering a careful perusal of Wallace’s extensive and heavily annotated self-help library, re-considerations of Wittgenstein’s influence on his fiction, and serious explorations into the moral and spiritual landscape where Wallace lived and wrote, this collection offers a perspective on Wallace that even he was not always ready to see. Since so much has been said in specifically literary circles about Wallace’s philosophical acumen, it seems natural to have those with an interest in both philosophy and Wallace’s writing address how these two areas come together.

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⭐My head is about to explode with all that I learned from this book.This amazing collection of essays on the philosophy of David Foster Wallace provides insights to David’s thinking and writing which I had not seen before, and I’ve read a lot of DFW and DFW analysis. I learned that David was strongly influenced by Schopenhauer, which I had suspected but did not know, and I certainly didn’t know the extent of the influence.And while it is well-known that David admired Wittgenstein, it is less well-known (or was to me) that David actually misinterpreted Wittgenstein with regard to what language can do. This made me realize that, when God created the universe, the first law he put in place is that “everyone misunderstands some aspect(s) of Wittgenstein,” with the second law being, of course, E=m*c*c.I also have a much better understanding of how David fit into the “new sincerity” movement and what the real aims of that movement have been.What amazed and pleased me the most was that every essay was presented in a way that I could actually understand it, and didn’t have to go out and get a philosophy degree to do so. The writing, by every contributor, is really well-done.I’ll be reading through this one again.

⭐Bought this mostly for some insight and thoughts about “This is Water” The essays were often very original and challenging

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