Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. In addition to editing the open access journal of Pynchon Studies, Orbit, he has work published or forthcoming in Textual Practise, Neo-Victorian Studies, C21, Pynchon Notes and several edited collections.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes 1. Theory. Methodology and Pynchon: What Matter Who's Speaking? PART I: ON LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN 2. Logical Ethics: Early Wittgenstein and Pynchon 3. Therapeutics: Late Wittgenstein and Pynchon PART II: ON MICHEL FOUCAULT 4. Enlightenments: Early Foucault and Pynchon 5. Whose Line is it Anyway?: Late Foucault and Pynchon PART III: ON THEODOR W. ARDORNO 6. Mass Deception: Adorno's Negative Dialectics and Pynchon 7. Art, Society and Ethics: Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, Aesthetic Theory and Pynchon Conclusion Bibliography Index

"Martin Paul Eve's Pynchon and Philosophy is a work of consummate scholarship. Breaking new ground in Pynchon studies, Eve offers an immensely erudite, detailed and in-depth account of the ways in which the ideas of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno help us to think about his texts. A first-rate book." - David Cowart, University of South Carolina, USA 'The extraordinary nuance that Eve brings [...] turns Pynchon and Philosophy into a crucial contribution to Pynchon scholarship' - Luc Herman, Textual Practice

Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. In addition to editing the open access journal of Pynchon Studies, Orbit, he has work published or forthcoming in Textual Practise, Neo-Victorian Studies, C21, Pynchon Notes and several edited collections.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes 1. Theory. Methodology and Pynchon: What Matter Who's Speaking? PART I: ON LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN 2. Logical Ethics: Early Wittgenstein and Pynchon 3. Therapeutics: Late Wittgenstein and Pynchon PART II: ON MICHEL FOUCAULT 4. Enlightenments: Early Foucault and Pynchon 5. Whose Line is it Anyway?: Late Foucault and Pynchon PART III: ON THEODOR W. ARDORNO 6. Mass Deception: Adorno's Negative Dialectics and Pynchon 7. Art, Society and Ethics: Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, Aesthetic Theory and Pynchon Conclusion Bibliography Index

"Martin Paul Eve's Pynchon and Philosophy is a work of consummate scholarship. Breaking new ground in Pynchon studies, Eve offers an immensely erudite, detailed and in-depth account of the ways in which the ideas of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno help us to think about his texts. A first-rate book." - David Cowart, University of South Carolina, USA 'The extraordinary nuance that Eve brings [...] turns Pynchon and Philosophy into a crucial contribution to Pynchon scholarship' - Luc Herman, Textual Practice

Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. In addition to editing the open access journal of Pynchon Studies, Orbit, he has work published or forthcoming in Textual Practise, Neo-Victorian Studies, C21, Pynchon Notes and several edited collections.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes 1. Theory. Methodology and Pynchon: What Matter Who's Speaking? PART I: ON LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN 2. Logical Ethics: Early Wittgenstein and Pynchon 3. Therapeutics: Late Wittgenstein and Pynchon PART II: ON MICHEL FOUCAULT 4. Enlightenments: Early Foucault and Pynchon 5. Whose Line is it Anyway?: Late Foucault and Pynchon PART III: ON THEODOR W. ARDORNO 6. Mass Deception: Adorno's Negative Dialectics and Pynchon 7. Art, Society and Ethics: Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, Aesthetic Theory and Pynchon Conclusion Bibliography Index

"Martin Paul Eve's Pynchon and Philosophy is a work of consummate scholarship. Breaking new ground in Pynchon studies, Eve offers an immensely erudite, detailed and in-depth account of the ways in which the ideas of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno help us to think about his texts. A first-rate book." - David Cowart, University of South Carolina, USA 'The extraordinary nuance that Eve brings [...] turns Pynchon and Philosophy into a crucial contribution to Pynchon scholarship' - Luc Herman, Textual Practice