{"product_id":"ordinary-unhappiness-jon-baskin-9781503608337","title":"Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Unhappiness\u003c\/i\u003e returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrief Interviews with Hideous Men\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e, Jon Baskin points readers to the work at the center of Wallace's oeuvre and places that writing in conversation with a philosophical tradition that includes Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Cavell, among others. What emerges is a Wallace who not only speaks to our postmodern addictions in the age of mass entertainment and McDonald's but who seeks to address a quiet desperation at the heart of our modern lives. Freud said that the job of the therapeutic process was to turn \"hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness.\" This book makes a case for how Wallace achieved this in his fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Baskin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503608336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503608337\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.70d","brand":"Jon Baskin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065659863295,"sku":"9781503608337","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b912177d-b449-4750-952e-380d5dd2cf6b.jpg?v=1768676431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ordinary-unhappiness-jon-baskin-9781503608337","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}