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

[Dave Monroe]

 "... as Dave Monroe has pointed out ..." p. 95

On Sunday, December 22, 2013, Michel <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Congratulations Martin!
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pynchon-Philosophy-Wittgenstein-Foucault-Adorno/dp/113740549X/
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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
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> 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.
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> 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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