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The Wounded Animal Author: Stephen Mulhall

ISBN: 9780691137377 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 272 Published: 16 November 2008 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.7 x 1.9 Description:

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...

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