The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (803 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691137374 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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M. 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. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature here displays undiminished vigor and renewed significance.. In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. Coetzee's lectur
Mulhall has enormously enriched the philosophical response to Coetzee."--Elizabeth Hirsh, Contemporary Literature"The Wounded Animal is a remarkable book that succeeds in handling a remarkable author with admirable subtlety and rigour in equal measure. One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009"This superb book by Mulhall, building on the work of Cora Diamond's The Realistic Spirit, contributes richly to the work of recovery in moral philosophy of a kind of literary, poetic, imaginative understanding usually occluded in favor of abstract argumentation that deflects attention from the concrete reality and lived experience of human and non-human animals. Mulhall provides brilliant descriptions of creative forms of thoughtful reflection on life's difficulties and contradictions, along with examples of poetic expressions of awe and reverence for the fullness of
The Old Quarrel Revisited. Joseph A. Harder Stephen Mulhall is, almost unquestionably, one of the most gifted-and fertile-of contemporary philosophers. His range of interests and reading is almost phenomenal. He has written on topics ranging from religion to film, and linguistic philosophy to communitarianism.His philosophical outlook is also almost unique. He seems to owe equal debts to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche. In addition, he has a much deeper knowledge of - and sympathy for- Ch
. His books include "On Film, The Conversation of Humanity", and "Philosophical Myths of the Fall" (Princeton). Stephen Mulhall is fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, University of Oxford