Fictions of fact and value : the erasure of logical positivism in American literature, 1945-1975 / by LeMahieu, Michael

Table of Contents: “…"Indigestible residues": Ludwig Wittgenstein, aesthetic negativism, and the incompleteness of logical positivism -- "Negative appearance": Flannery O'Connor, believing in nothing, and the threat of logical positivism -- "Contradictory feelings": John Barth, non-mystical value-thinking, and the exhaustion of logical positivism -- "Eternal things": Saul Bellow, the infinite longings of the soul, and the shortcomings of logical positivism -- "Illogical negativism": Thomas Pynchon, the critique of modernism, and the erasure of logical positivism.…”

Fictions of fact and value : the erasure of logical positivism in American literature, 1945-1975 / by LeMahieu, Michael

Table of Contents: “…"Indigestible residues": Ludwig Wittgenstein, aesthetic negativism, and the incompleteness of logical positivism -- "Negative appearance": Flannery O'Connor, the fact/value problem, and the threat of logical positivism -- "Contradictory feelings": John Barth, non-mystical value-thinking, and the exhaustion of logical positivism -- "Eternal things": Saul Bellow, the infinite longings of the soul, and the shortcomings of logical positivism -- "Illogical negativism": Thomas Pynchon, the critique of modernism, and the erasure of logical positivism.…”
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Wittgenstein and modernism / by LeMahieu, Michael, Zumhagen-Yekplé, Karen

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