Buddhist philosophy in the work of David Foster Wallace
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kevorkian, Martin, 1968- | |
| dc.creator | Piekarski, Krzysztof, active 2013 | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-30T19:59:01Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-11T22:35:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-11T22:35:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2013 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2013-10-30T19:59:01Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is about the ways David Foster Wallace's writing expresses Buddhist philosophy. Because Buddhism is a vast subject, sometimes I conflate several traditional "Buddhisms" into a common-denominator form, while other times I investigate Wallace's work through Zen Buddhism specifically. By close-reading his work in chronological order--starting with The Broom of the System, Girl With Curious Hair, "The Empty Plenum," Infinite Jest, "Roger Federer as Religious Experience," "The Suffering Channel," and The Pale King--I analyze the ways in which Wallace's writing focused on questions of the self-awareness of linguistic expression, the contemporary causes of addiction and suffering and their implied remedy, the ethical and moral implications of living out of self-consciousness, the principles of mutual causality, "co-arising" and ecological well-being, and the discernment of multiple forms of awareness, all of which are foundational concerns shared with Buddhist philosophy. | en |
| dc.description.department | English | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21822 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.subject | David Foster Wallace | en |
| dc.subject | Buddhism | en |
| dc.subject | Philosophy | en |
| dc.title | Buddhist philosophy in the work of David Foster Wallace | en |