LEADER 04541nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910457866803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-74417-4 010 $a9786613789556 010 $a0-231-52024-7 024 7 $a10.7312/leis14840 035 $a(CKB)2550000000074884 035 $a(EBL)895128 035 $a(OCoLC)826478815 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000646384 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12246374 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646384 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10703276 035 $a(PQKB)11752306 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC895128 035 $a(DE-B1597)459051 035 $a(OCoLC)774288665 035 $a(OCoLC)979573745 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231520249 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL895128 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10517241 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL378955 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000074884 100 $a20091022d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aJ.M. Coetzee and ethics$b[electronic resource] $ephilosophical perspectives on literature /$fedited by Anton Leist & Peter Singer 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (410 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14841-0 311 $a0-231-14840-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aPhilosophy in literature 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPhilosophy in literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 676 $a823/.914 701 $aLeist$b Anton$f1947-$0733675 701 $aSinger$b Peter$f1946-$0144360 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457866803321 996 $aJ.M. Coetzee and ethics$92466377 997 $aUNINA