Wallace and I: Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction

Author:   Jamie Redgate
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138354470


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   24 January 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jamie Redgate
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138354470


ISBN 10:   1138354473
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   24 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Introduction 1. ""It’s much more boneheaded and practical than that"": Authorship and the Body 2. ""He’s a ghost haunting his own body"": Cartesian Dualism in Wallace’s Ghost Storie 3. ""The heat just past the glass doors"": Therapy, Madness, and Metaphor 4. ""(At Least) Three Cheers for Cause and Effect"": Free Will, Addiction, and the Self"

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Jamie Redgate's Wallace and I is a ground breaking study of Wallace's vision of cognition. He demonstrates that Wallace's posthumanist leanings in the context of neuroscience rub up against a sustained adherence to Cartesian conceptions of the self. As such, Wallace's work proposes a model of cognition wherein the brain produces a quasi-Cartesian mind that is embodied and indelibly tied to and wholly dependent upon the individual's physical body. The book makes a genuinely innovative contribution to our understanding of Wallace's work, one that will be immensely clarifying to future Wallace scholars. Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College


Jamie Redgate's Wallace and I is a ground breaking study of Wallace's vision of cognition. He demonstrates that Wallace's posthumanist leanings in the context of neuroscience rub up against a sustained adherence to Cartesian conceptions of the self. As such, Wallace's work proposes a model of cognition wherein the brain produces a quasi-Cartesian mind that is embodied and indelibly tied to and wholly dependent upon the individual's physical body. The book makes a genuinely innovative contribution to our understanding of Wallace's work, one that will be immensely clarifying to future Wallace scholars. Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College Jamie Redgate's Wallace and I is a ground breaking study of Wallace's vision of cognition. He demonstrates that Wallace's posthumanist leanings in the context of neuroscience rub up against a sustained adherence to Cartesian conceptions of the self. As such, Wallace's work proposes a model of cognition wherein the brain produces a quasi-Cartesian mind that is embodied and indelibly tied to and wholly dependent upon the individual's physical body. The book makes a genuinely innovative contribution to our understanding of Wallace's work, one that will be immensely clarifying to future Wallace scholars. --Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College This elegant volume, which weighs in at just 150 pages including notes (176 with bibliography and index), is a tour de force, cleanly argued, thoroughly grounded, and written with the kind of refreshing lucidity that many seasoned academics struggle to employ. --Dr Clare Hayes-Brady, The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies 1:3


Author Information

Jamie Redgate received his PhD from the University of Glasgow. His writing has been published in Critique, Electric Literature, with the Scottish Book Trust, and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for the Imprint Writing Award in 2018.

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