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Pynchon and philosophy : = Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pynchon and philosophy :/ Martin Paul Eve.
Reminder of title:	Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno /
Author:	Eve, Martin Paul,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Philosophy in literature. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137405500
ISBN:	1137405503 (electronic bk.)

Pynchon and philosophy : = Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno /
Eve, Martin Paul,

Pynchon and philosophy :Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno /Martin Paul Eve. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Theory. Methodology and Pynchon: What Matter Who's Speaking? -- PART I: ON LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN -- 2. Logical Ethics: Early Wittgenstein and Pynchon -- 3. Therapeutics: Late Wittgenstein and Pynchon -- PART II: ON MICHEL FOUCAULT -- 4. Enlightenments: Early Foucault and Pynchon -- 5. Whose Line is it Anyway?: Late Foucault and Pynchon -- PART III: ON THEODOR W. ARDORNO -- 6. Mass Deception: Adorno's Negative Dialectics and Pynchon -- 7. Art, Society and Ethics: Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, Aesthetic Theory and Pynchon.

Thomas Pynchon, perhaps the most important living American author, is famed for his lengthy, complex and erudite fictions. Given these characteristics, an examination of the philosophical dimensions of Pynchon's works is long overdue. In "Pynchon and Philosophy", Martin Paul Eve comprehensively and clearly redresses this balance, mapping Pynchon's interactions with the philosophy, ethics and politics of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault and Theodor W. Adorno, resulting in a fresh approach to these seminal novels. "Pynchon and Philosophy" is based on the notion that Pynchon's brand of postmodern literature mocks theoretical frameworks. On these grounds, Pynchon has been accused of being an anti-rationalist, a postmodern nihilist figure who revels in the collapse of logic. In this book Eve shows that a fruitful showdown between these philosophical figures and Pynchon is now urgently needed to unearth the latent ethics within Pynchon's novels and to counter these wild claims.

ISBN: 1137405503 (electronic bk.)

Source: 753606Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.com

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016684945UkSubjects--Personal Names:

814838
Pynchon, Thomas
--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

647382
Philosophy in literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

993252
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PS3566.Y55

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.5409

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