Leist / Singer J. M. Coetzee and Ethics

Philosophical Perspectives on Literature
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-52024-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Leist, Anton

Singer, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Coetzee and Philosophy, by Anton Leist and Peter Singer
Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics
1. The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J. M. Coetzee, by Robert Pippin
2. Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa, by Adriaan van Heerden
3. Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year, by Jonathan Lear
4. Torture and Collective Shame, by Jeff McMahan
Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality
5. Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals, by Karen Dawn and Peter Singer
6. Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics, by Elisa Aaltola
7. Writing the Lives of Animals, by Ido Geiger
8. Sympathy and Scapegoating in J. M. Coetzee, by Andy Lamey
Part III. Rationality and Human Lives
9. Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism, by Anton Leist
10. Coetzee's Critique of Reason, by Martin Woessner
11. J. M. Coetzee, Moral Thinker, by Alice Crary
12. Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World, by Pieter Vermeulen
Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy
13. Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral Vision in Age of Iron, by Samantha Vice
14. The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection, by Jennifer Flynn
15. Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello, by Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm
16. Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche, by Alena Dvorakova
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anton Leist is professor of philosophy at the Ethics-Center of the University of Zurich. His books include A Question of Life, Good Action, Ethics of Social Relationships, and Action in Context.

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, and The Life You Can Save.