Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

On Homecoming: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and the Odyssey, by Yi-Ping Ong

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Yi-Ping Ong is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 2018). Her published articles include “Lectures on Ethics: Wittgenstein and Kafka,” in Wittgenstein and Modernism, ed. Michael Lemahieu and Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé (University of Chicago Press, 2017), “Simone de Beauvoir’s Theory of the Novel: The Opacity, Ambiguity, and Impartiality of Life,” Philosophy and Literature (2015), “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Mad Men and Moral Ambiguity,” MLN (2012), and “A View of Life: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Novel,” Philosophy and Literature (2009).

Yi-Ping Ong, “On Homecoming: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and the Odyssey,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39:2 (2019), pp. 475-99.

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