Mulhall The Wounded Animal

J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy
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Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulhall, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ABBREVIATIONS ix

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: The Ancient Quarrel 1

PART ONE: THE LIVES OF ANIMALS 19

CHAPTER TWO: Elizabeth Costello's Lecture: Stories, Thought-Experiments, and Literal-Mindedness 21

CHAPTER THREE: Elizabeth Costello's Lecture: Three Philosophers and a Number of Apes 36

CHAPTER FOUR: Food for Thought: Two Symposia 58

CHAPTER FIVE: Food for Thought: A Third Symposium 69

CHAPTER SIX: Food for Thought: An Uninvited Guest? 95

CHAPTER SEVEN: Elizabeth Costello's Seminar: Two Poets and a Novelist 110

CHAPTER EIGHT: Elizabeth Costello's Seminar: Primatology and Animal Training, Philosophy and Literary Theory 122

PART TWO: ELIZABETH COSTELLO 137

CHAPTER NINE: Realism, Modernism, and the Novel 139

CHAPTER TEN: Costello's Realist Modernism, and Coetzee's 162

CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Body in Africa 184

CHAPTER TWELVE: Evil as Obscenity 203

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Two Embodiments of the Kafkaesque 214

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Conclusion: Three Postscripts 231

BIBLIOGRAPHY 253

INDEX 257

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Mulhall is fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, University of Oxford. His books include On Film, The Conversation of Humanity, and Philosophical Myths of the Fall (Princeton).