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My chapter argues that Stanley Cavell’s work on Wittgenstein and on scepticism provides fresh perspectives on the preoccupation with interiority found in David Foster Wallace’s writings. Through a close reading of Wallace’s short story, “Good Old Neon”, I show how Cavell’s reinterpretation of scepticism in terms of acknowledgement helps to foreground questions of separateness and voice underlying Wallace’s concern with interiority. Seen in this light, such concern does not reflect a misunderstanding of Wittgenstein on Wallace’s part, nor does it articulate a settled epistemological scepticism.
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Fictional Worlds and the Moral ImaginationPages
97 - 113Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This book chapter was accepted for publication in Fictional Worlds and the Moral Imagination edited by Garry Hagberg and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55049-3_6.Publication date
2020-12-12Copyright date
2021ISBN
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