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Drawing on Wallace’s reading in the science and philosophy of mind, this book gives a rigorous account of Wallace’s humanistic response to postmodernism, and shines a much needed light on the fundamental relationship in Wallace’s work between his characters’ bodies and the ghosts that haunt them.
Jamie Redgate’s Wallace and I is a ground breaking study of Wallace’s vision of cognition. He demonstrates that Wallace’s posthumanist leanings in the context of neuroscience rub up against a sustained adherence to Cartesian conceptions of the self. As such, Wallace’s work proposes a model of cognition wherein the brain produces a quasi-Cartesian mind that is embodied and indelibly tied to and wholly dependent upon the individual’s physical body. The book makes a genuinely innovative contribution to our understanding of Wallace’s work, one that will be immensely clarifying to future Wallace scholars.
Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College
Jamie Redgate’s Wallace and I is a ground breaking study of Wallace’s vision of cognition. He demonstrates that Wallace’s posthumanist leanings in the context of neuroscience rub up against a sustained adherence to Cartesian conceptions of the self. As such, Wallace’s work proposes a model of cognition wherein the brain produces a quasi-Cartesian mind that is embodied and indelibly tied to and wholly dependent upon the individual’s physical body. The book makes a genuinely innovative contribution to our understanding of Wallace’s work, one that will be immensely clarifying to future Wallace scholars.
--Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College
This elegant volume, which weighs in at just 150 pages including notes (176 with bibliography and index), is a tour de force, cleanly argued, thoroughly grounded, and written with the kind of refreshing lucidity that many seasoned academics struggle to employ.
--Dr Clare Hayes-Brady, The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies 1:3
Jamie Redgate received his PhD from the University of Glasgow. His writing has been published in Critique, Electric Literature, with the Scottish Book Trust, and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for the Imprint Writing Award in 2018.