“Longing on a Large Scale”: Falling Man’s Problem of Evil Before Falling Man

Abstract
The “storyline sessions” passages in chapters four and five of Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007) invoke provocatively the longstanding “problem of evil.” The proposed presentation would explore an answer to the question begged, what of the problem in his previous novels, from The Names (1982) through Cosmopolis (2003)?
Presenter Biography

Trip McCrossin has been with the Philosophy Department at Rutgers University for over fifteen years, working in various ways on the history and legacy of the Enlightenment in philosophy and popular culture, writing both academically and popularly on the subject. The former includes, for example, preparing collections of first English translations of Rousseau’s and Kant’s writings and expanded versions of recent presentations to the Biennial Rousseau Association Colloquium. The latter includes, for example, periodic contributions to collections in the Open Court and Blackwell Popular Culture and Philosophy series, in 2019 with Robin Bunce, Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy, and forthcomingwith Sue Zemka, Handmaids’ and Aunts’ Tales: Learning from Atwood about Resisting Gileads Fictional and Real.

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