Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno, by Martin Eve

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Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (14 May 2014)
ISBN-10: 113740549X
ISBN-13: 978-1137405494

Description:
Thomas Pynchon, 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.

Review:
"Martin Paul Eve's Pynchon and Philosophy is a work of consummate 
scholarship. Breaking new ground in Pynchon studies, Eve offers an 
immensely erudite, detailed and in-depth account of the ways in which 
the ideas of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno help us to think about 
his texts. A first-rate book." - David Cowart, University of South 
Carolina, USA

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