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<p>According to the Columbia University Press Fall Catalogue, there is a <br />nice treat on it's way for DFW fans!
Fate, Time, and Language <br />An Essay on Free Will <br />David Foster Wallace
The late novelist's legendary, unpublished work reveals the <br />philosophical foundations of his celebrated fiction.
Long before he published Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote a <br />brilliant critique of Richard Taylor’s argument for fatalism. In 1962, <br />Taylor used six commonly-accepted philosophical presuppositions to imply <br />that humans have no control over the future. Not only did Wallace take <br />issue with Taylor’s method, which, according to him, scrambled the <br />relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but he also called <br />out a semantic flaw that lie at the heart of Taylor’s argument.
Wallace was a great skeptic of abstract thinking as a negation of <br />something more genuine and real. He was especially suspicious of certain <br />theoretical paradigms — the cerebral aestheticism of modernism, the <br />clever gimmickry of postmodernism—that abandoned “the very old <br />traditional human verities that have to do with spirituality and emotion <br />and community.” As Wallace rises up to meet the challenge of Taylor (not <br />to mention a number of other philosophical heavyweights), we watch the <br />perspective of a major novelist develop, along with a lifelong struggle <br />to find solid ground for his soaring convictions. This volume reproduces <br />Taylor’s original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace <br />in his critique. James Ryerson, an editor at the New York Times <br />Magazine, draws parallels in his introduction between Wallace’s <br />philosophy and fiction.
"The real accomplishment of this work is not technical or argumentative <br />but more like a moral victory. David Foster Wallace's intellectual <br />powers have been used to set aright a world momentarily upended by an <br />intellectual sleight of hand. He enlists clinical argument in defense of <br />passionate intuition. He restores logic and language to their rightful <br />places."—from the Introduction by James Ryerson
$19.95t / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-15157-3 <br />$60.00s / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-15156-6 <br />$60.00s / £41.50 ebook 978-0-231-52707-1</p>