In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but also noted a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's argument. Fate, Time, and Language presents Wallace's brilliant critique of Taylor's work. Written long before the publication of his fiction and essays, Wallace's thesis reveals his great skepticism of abstract thinking made t Fate, Time, and Language - David Foster Wallace od authora David Foster Wallace a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
David Foster Wallace |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
264 |
| Rok vydání |
2010 |
| Typ |
filmy |
| Nakladatelství |
Columbia University Press |
