Pynchon & Math (Aristotle vs. Plato)

[alice wellintown]

Before GR, as Euben argues in his persuasive essay, there is still a
chance for a middle term.

So, is GR a darker vision of the "turn" or the post-Enlightenment turn?

Is this the "turn" that Lacey names in his thesis?



“Sophocles implies that incest and exile, too much unity and
too much diversity, are not opposites but are, literally,
two sides of the same coin. He also suggests, what the
audience believed, that incest and parricide are acts that
obliterate the distinction between man and beast, inside and
outside, the wild and civilization. What Oedipus lacks (and
Thebes as well) is some middle term, an Aristotelian Polis
that mediates between our divinity and animality, making us
whole in a community constituted by diversity.” 287
So says,  J. Peter Euben in  The Road Home: Pynchon’s The
Crying of Lot 49, the concluding chapter of his The Tragedy
of Political Theory. [1990]