J. M. Coetzee and Ethics : : Philosophical Perspectives on Literature /

J. M. Coetzee and Ethics : : Philosophical Perspectives on Literature / / ed. by Anton Leist, Peter Singer.

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In 2003, South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited with being "a scrupulous doubter, ruth...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Aaltola, Elisa,
Crary, Alice,
Dawn, Karen,
Deckard, Michael Funk,
Dvorakova, Alena,
Flynn, Jennifer,
Geiger, Ido,
Heerden, Adriaan van,
Lamey, Andy,
Lear, Jonathan,
Leist, Anton,
McMahan, Jeff,
Palm, Ralph,
Pippin, Robert,
Singer, Peter,
Vermeulen, Pieter,
Vice, Samantha,
Woessner, Martin,
HerausgeberIn:
Leist, Anton,
Singer, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Coetzee and Philosophy
  • Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics
  • 1. The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J. M. Coetzee
  • 2. Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa
  • 3. Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year
  • 4. Torture and Collective Shame
  • Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality
  • 5. Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals
  • 6. Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics
  • 7. Writing the Lives of Animals
  • 8. Sympathy and Scapegoating in J. M. Coetzee
  • 9. Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism
  • 10. Coetzee's Critique of Reason
  • 11. J. M. Coetzee, Moral Thinker
  • 12. Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World
  • Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy
  • 13. Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral Vision in Age of Iron
  • 14. The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection
  • 15. Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello
  • 16. Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche
  • Contributors
  • Index

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