David Foster Wallace and the Ethical Challenge of Posthumanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wilson Kaiser (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 53-69 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2014.0030 |
| OpenAlex | W1993373800 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
David Foster Wallace's fiction and prose express a strong ethical commitment that does not correspond to normative categories of behaviour or normate bodies. Rather than abandon the problem of ethics, however, Wallace adopts an ethics of affinity, which explores the complex interplay of his characters' private experiences
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Normative · Posthumanism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Psychology · Short Stories in Global Literature · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2020 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |