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, ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of western civilization." The film of his novel Disgrace , starring John Malkovich, brought his challenging ideas to a new audience. Anton Leist and 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, ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of western civilization." The film of his novel Disgrace , starring John Malkovich, brought his challenging ideas to a new audience. Anton Leist and Peter Singer have assembled an outstanding group of contributors who probe deeply into Coetzee's extensive and extraordinary corpus. They explore his approach to ethical theory and philosophy and pay particular attention to his representation of the human-animal relationship. They also confront Coetzee's depiction of the elementary conditions of life, the origins of morality, the recognition of value in others, the sexual dynamics between men and women, the normality of suppression, and the possibility of equality in postcolonial society. With its wide-ranging consideration of philosophical issues, especially in relation to fiction, this volume stands alone in its extraordinary exchange of ethical and literary inquiry.
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009043271 Type of material Book Main title J.M. Coetzee and ethics: philosophical perspectives on literature / edited by Anton Leist & Peter Singer. Published/Created New York: Columbia University Press, c2010. Description vi, 400 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780231148405 (cloth: alk. paper) 0231148402 (cloth: alk. paper) 9780231148412 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0231148410 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780231520249 (e-book) 0231520247 (e-book) LC classification PR9369.3. C58 Z73 2010 Related names Leist, Anton, 1947-Singer, Peter, 1946-Contents Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics--The paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J.M. Coetzee / Robert Pippin--Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa / Adriaan van Heerden--Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year / Jonathan Lear--Torture and Collective Shame / Jeff McMahan--Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality--Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals / Karen Dawn and Peter Singer--Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics / Eilisa Aaltola--Writing the Lives of Animals / Ido Geiger--Sympathy and Scapegoating in H.M. Coetzee / Andy Lamey--Part III. Rationality and Human Lives--Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism / Anton Leist--Coetzee's Critique of Reason / Martin Woessner--J.M. Cietzee, Moral Thinker / Alice Crary--Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World / Pieter Vermeulen--Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy--Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral vision in Age of Iron / Samantha Vice--The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection / Jennifer Flynn--Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello / Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm--Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche / Alena Dvorakova LC Subjects Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Criticism and interpretation. Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Ethics. Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Philosophy. Philosophy in literature. Literature--Philosophy. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 823/.914 Other class no. 08.38 18.07 National bib no. GBB030294 National bib agency no. 015493952 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn458890814
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