Animality Beyond Humanism in David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster

This article examines David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” through three interconnected perspectives: historical, literary, and philosophical. It explores the relationship between the figure of the lobster and the human, and, more broadly, the relationship between humanity and nature, with particular attention to bioethics and the question of killing and violence in the Anthropocene. The study also foregrounds the relationship between habitat and the living being, examining how the presence or absence of habitat, here represented by the body of water, can challenge the humanist framework. Through an engagement with different theoretical perspectives, the article demonstrates how Wallace’s ethical position can be understood at the intersection of humanism and posthumanism.

کلیدواژه ها:

David Foster Wallace ، posthumanism ، Animal Ethics ، Self and Other ، New Humanism