PHIL-426 David Foster Wallace and Metaphilosophy

David Foster Wallace’s fiction and non-fiction are often read through a philosophical lens, given his deep immersion in the analytic philosophical tradition. This course examines the extent to which Wallace’s work is appropriately read as philosophy, and the question of what demarcates philosophy from fiction and from literary non-fiction. Not open to students who have taken PHIL-326.

Maximum Enrollment

Seminar (12)

(Writing Intensive, Seminar.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

Three courses in Philosophy (PHIL) or three courses in Literature (LIT) or Creative Writing (CRWR), or consent of instructor

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