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Informationen zum Autor 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! and The Life You Can Save. Klappentext In 2003! the South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for a tradition of work that questioned widely shared ethical assumptions. In his portrayal of racial repression! sexual politics! the guises of reason! and human beings hypocrisy toward animals and nature! Coetzee had become! in the words of the prize committee! "a scrupulous doubter! ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of western civilization." Tackling Coetzee's extensive and extraordinary corpus and paying particular attention to the author's representation of the human-animal relationship! Anton Leist and Peter Singer deeply explore Coetzee's impact on ethical theory and philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Coetzee and Philosophy! by Anton Leist and Peter SingerPart I. People! Human Relationships! and Politics 1. The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J. M. Coetzee! by Robert Pippin2. Disgrace! Desire! and the Dark Side of the New South Africa! by Adriaan van Heerden3. Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year! by Jonathan Lear4. Torture and Collective Shame! by Jeff McMahanPart II. Humans! Animals! and Morality 5. Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals! by Karen Dawn and Peter Singer6. Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics! by Elisa Aaltola7. Writing the Lives of Animals! by Ido Geiger8. Sympathy and Scapegoating in J. M. Coetzee! by Andy LameyPart III. Rationality and Human Lives 9. Against Society! Against History! Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism! by Anton Leist10. Coetzee's Critique of Reason! by Martin Woessner11. J. M. Coetzee! Moral Thinker! by Alice Crary12. Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World! by Pieter VermeulenPart IV. Literature! Literary Style! and Philosophy 13. Truth and Love Together at Last: Style! Form! and Moral Vision in Age of Iron! by Samantha Vice14. The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection! by Jennifer Flynn15. Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello! by Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm16. Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche! by Alena DvorakovaList of ContributorsIndex ...
