Sacred and Profane Love Episode 32: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace

Published: March 16, 2021, 3:34 p.m.

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In this episode, I am joined by one of the founding editors of The Point, Jon Baskin, to discuss the prospects of philosophical literary criticism and how we can apply such criticism to the fiction of David Foster Wallace. \\xa0Baskin elaborates his ideas in a book I highly recommend, Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace. \\xa0Jon and I discuss Wittgenstein, Iris Murdoch, Stanley Cavell, Robert Pippin, and of course, David Foster Wallace. \\xa0I hope you enjoy our conversation.

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