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Fate, Time, and Language

- An Essay on Free Will
Af: David Wallace Engelsk Paperback

Fate, Time, and Language

- An Essay on Free Will
Af: David Wallace Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 264
ISBN-13: 9780231151573
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0231151578
Kategori: Filosofi: epistemologi og vidensteori
Udg. Dato: 10 dec 2010
Længde: 10mm
Bredde: 140mm
Højde: 210mm
Forlag: Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato: 10 dec 2010
Forfatter(e): David Wallace
Forfatter(e) David Wallace

Kategori Filosofi: epistemologi og vidensteori

ISBN-13 9780231151573

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 264

Udgave

Længde 10mm

Bredde 140mm

Højde 210mm

Udg. Dato 10 dec 2010

Oplagsdato 10 dec 2010

Forlag Columbia University Press

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