Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Wounded AnimalCondition: NewSubtitle: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and PhilosophyAuthor: Stephen MulhallFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0691137374EAN: 9780691137377ISBN: 9780691137377Publisher: Princeton University PressGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Date: 12/28/2008Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 397gRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Wounded Animal
Title: The Wounded Animal
Subtitle: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Phi
ISBN-10: 0691137374
EAN: 9780691137377
ISBN: 9780691137377
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 12/28/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Wounded Animal : J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Semiotics & Theory, Animal Rights, African, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Stephen Mulhall
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Nature, Philosophy
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
