The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy

Mulhall, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0691137374 / ISBN 13: 9780691137377

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2008

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In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture on the moral status of animals at an American college. Coetzee’s lectures were published in 1999 as The Lives of Animals, and reappeared in 2003 as part of his novel Elizabeth Costello; and both lectures and novel have attracted the critical attention of a number of influential philosophers--including Peter Singer, Cora Diamond, Stanley Cavell, and John McDowell.


In The Wounded Animal, Stephen Mulhall closely examines Coetzee’s writings about Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them, focusing in particular on their powerful presentation of both literature and philosophy as seeking, and failing, to represent reality--in part because of reality’s resistance to such projects of understanding, but also because of philosophy’s unwillingness to learn from literature how best to acknowledge that resistance. In so doing, Mulhall is led to consider the relations among reason, language, and the imagination, as well as more specific ethical issues concerning the moral status of animals, the meaning of mortality, the nature of evil, and the demands of religion. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature here displays undiminished vigor and renewed significance.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Stephen Mulhall is fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, University of Oxford. His books include "On Film, The Conversation of Humanity", and "Philosophical Myths of the Fall" (Princeton).

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Titel: The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the ...
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Softcover
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