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

[Ian Livingston]

Congratulations! I look forward to reading this when I get a few hours.


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "... as Dave Monroe has pointed out ..." p. 95
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> On Sunday, December 22, 2013, Michel <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > Congratulations Martin!
> >
> >
> 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pynchon-Philosophy-Wittgenstein-Foucault-Adorno/dp/113740549X/
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