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A solution to this problem might seem to be to deny that the judgment of others has anything to do with who we are or what we mean - that is, to decisively privilege our "inner" selves over the self that we expose to the public. But this option, sometimes associated with romanticism or modernism in…

[...] The stillness and enclosedness of the poet's environment reflects an inner condition of decadent self-satisfaction, which Wallace depicts as stagnant or lifeless. Iannis Goerlandt says that "one of the points the story makes is that the end lies in this stasis, not in death itself." The story…

[...] it is not only by emphasizing simplicity and sincerity that Wallace's AA plays its central role in Infinite Jest's philosophical therapy; it is rather by advancing a picture of thought, and of philosophy, that will seem unfamiliar and perhaps initially banal to most of his readers. The idea…