polysemous
(en)
when a word or phrase has multiple meanings (from Greek)
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For Wallace, value, kept loose and polysemous, could connect depression's internal discourse
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For Wallace, value, kept loose and polysemous, could connect depression's internal discourse
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enervating
(en)
(verb) to reduce the mental or moral vigor of / (verb) to lessen the vitality or strength of
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The effect of such forces is, for his characters, enervating
I always think it means the opposite
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The effect of such forces is, for his characters, enervating
I always think it means the opposite
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ars poetica
(la)
"the art of poetry"; also a poem written by Roman poet Horace in 19 BC, in which he advises poets on the art of writing poetry and drama
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in this essay that led him into the writing of Infinite Jest lies an allegorical ars poetica
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in this essay that led him into the writing of Infinite Jest lies an allegorical ars poetica
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axiology
(en)
(in philosophy) the study of values and value judgments
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My third and most important philosophical guidepost on value is axiology
Severs includes DFW's definition of axiology from Both Flesh and Not
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My third and most important philosophical guidepost on value is axiology
Severs includes DFW's definition of axiology from Both Flesh and Not
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petitio principii
(en)
"assuming the initial point"; a fallacy of circular reasoning
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a textbook petitio principii
quoted from Oblivion
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a textbook petitio principii
quoted from Oblivion
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semiotics
(en)
the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation (adj: semiotic)
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attempts a fusion of semiotic, economic, and psychoanalytic systems
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attempts a fusion of semiotic, economic, and psychoanalytic systems
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Calvinism
(en)
a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin
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Unlike Pynchon, however, Wallace does not wish to dump the legacy of Calvinism; he seeks to build fictions around work and the fervent call to work, an activity he recurrently sees not just in terms of the labor theory of value but, through the lens of Hegel, as the only way of creating a fully viable self.
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Unlike Pynchon, however, Wallace does not wish to dump the legacy of Calvinism; he seeks to build fictions around work and the fervent call to work, an activity he recurrently sees not just in terms of the labor theory of value but, through the lens of Hegel, as the only way of creating a fully viable self.
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Hegel's bondsman
(en)
referring to a passage titled "Lordship and Bondage" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, which describes the master-slave dialectic
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Hegel's bondsman is a recurrent trope, as is metaphysical slavery in general.
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Hegel's bondsman is a recurrent trope, as is metaphysical slavery in general.
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Horatio Alger
(en)
a prolific 19th-century American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty
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if moral values are, like money, inherited, then so, too, may the morally impoverished of his 1980s generation, new versions of Horatio Alger, go get jobs
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if moral values are, like money, inherited, then so, too, may the morally impoverished of his 1980s generation, new versions of Horatio Alger, go get jobs
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neoliberalism
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the postulate that markets are organised most effectively by private enterprise and that the private pursuit of accumulation will generate the most common good; accomplished by opening international markets and financial networks, and downsizing the welfare state
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The denigration of work, the celebration of efficiency, and the worship of the market are all hallmarks of the ideology that has dominated the United States since the late 1970s, neoliberalism
includes a definition of neoliberalism by Alissa G. Karl
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The denigration of work, the celebration of efficiency, and the worship of the market are all hallmarks of the ideology that has dominated the United States since the late 1970s, neoliberalism
includes a definition of neoliberalism by Alissa G. Karl
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