Pynchon and Philosophy : : Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno / / Martin Paul Eve, University of Lincoln, UK.

Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically,...

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Place / Publishing House:Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;, New York, New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2014.
c2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:First edition. 2014.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (244 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Bibliographic Notes; 1 Theory, Methodology and Pynchon: What Matter Who''s Speaking?; Lost in translation; Pynchon and philosophy, or the critical Pynchon; Overview; Part I: On Ludwig Wittgenstein; 2 Logical Ethics: Early Wittgenstein and Pynchon; Wittgenstein and Pynchon: a historical context; The Tractatus and V.; 3 Therapeutics: Late Wittgenstein and Pynchon; Language games: New Wittgenstein, The Crying of Lot 49and Inherent Vice; Naming and private language in Gravity''s Rainbow (through the lens of Vineland)
  • Politics, ethics, philosophyPart II: On Michel Foucault; 4 Enlightenments: Early Foucault and Pynchon; Foucault''s Enlightenment; 1957-78: modernity and globalisation; 5 Whose Line is it Anyway?: Late Foucault and Pynchon; 1978-83: nothing to do with guilt or innocence; 1984-: ''Was ist Aufkläung?''; Part III: On Theodor W. Adorno; 6 Mass Deception: Adorno''s Negative Dialectics and Pynchon; Locating Adorno; Reason, reality, synthesis and control: Gravity''s Rainbow and Negative Dialectics; 7 Art, Society and Ethics: Adorno''s Dialectic of Enlightenment, Aesthetic Theory and Pynchon
  • Human resources: Dialectic of EnlightenmentPynchon and Aesthetic Theory; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index