[PDF] Ethical Awareness And Moral Obligation In Jm Coetzee eBook

Author : Tala Hussein Suleiman-Haidar
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 1997
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This thesis focuses on the valuable thematic intensity of J.M. Coetzee's fiction and its fulfillment of a moral obligation more than on its stylistic aspects. The analysis shows how Coetzee weaves the following interrelated themes into the fabric of his novels: the defiance of the patriarchal values and gender differences, the interdependability of history and storytelling, the racial tension and devious ways of interrogation, the oppressive-oppressed language, and the power struggle of authorship. All these tensions are predicated on the I /You or Us /Other binary opposition Unlike some other anti-apartheid writers, Coetzee refuses political prescriptiveness in his fiction and employs a gracefully elusive and indirect approach in depicting the atrocities of out times and in delivering his ethical messages. This thesis tackles three of Coetzee's novels, In the Heart of the Country, Waiting for the Barbarians, and Foe, in their original chronological order that emphasizes the gradual evolution of my thesis reaching a crescendo with Foe. Coetzee weaves the different tensions in these novels to show that the chasm between the Us and the Other cannot be completely bridged yet can be made much narrower through clear-sighted awareness of the indisputable reality of pain for all human beings, and the honest devotion to the land whose healing power is underscored by the author. The universality of the body in pain necessitates a measure of charity, or pity, to enable grace to allegorize itself in the world. Without doubt, Coetzee is calling for this salutary grace to inscribe itself in people's hearts.

Author : Anton Leist
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2010-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231148402

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This collection takes stock of J.M. Coetzee's impact from a number of interesting angles, Including animals, sexuality, race, and reason. The time is truly ripe for such a volume. Philosophers Who are interested Coetzee's work will find these essays useful for their own research, and readers of Coetzee who share an interest in philosophy will be able to further explore those interests."-Matthew Calarco, California State University at Fullerton, and author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida --Book Jacket.

Author : Emanuela Tegla
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 900430844X

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“For I was not, as I liked to believe, the indulgent pleasure-loving opposite of the cold rigid Colonel. I was the lie that Empire tells itself when times are easy, he the truth that Empire tells when harsh winds blow.” Thus the Magistrate confesses in Coetzee’s 1980 novel Waiting for the Barbarians. The present study looks closely into the unsettling effects Coetzee’s novels have on the reader and explores the interconnectedness between stylistic choices and moral insights. Its overall aim is to disclose the effectiveness of Coetzee’s narrative strategies to prompt the reader to engage in self-questioning and radical revisions of personal and social moral assumptions. “This is an original and ground-breaking study of Coetzee’s work. Dr Tegla’s insightful close-readings highlight the ways in which Coetzee fictionalizes a variety of moral dilemmas. In particular, she shows how he turns narrative into an instrument for moral discernment. Her narratological approach advances our understanding of his achievements, and I can state without reservation that this book will be referred to as a landmark in Coetzee criticism.” — Richard Bradford, Research Professor and Senior Distinguished Research Fellow, University of Ulster

Author : Alexandra Effe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319601016

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This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee’s writing, it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis, challenges common understandings of self-reflexive discourse, and invites us to rethink our practice as critics and readers. This study analyzes Coetzee’s novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author’s relation with character, reader, and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of Foe, Slow Man, and Coetzee’s Nobel lecture, 'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character Elizabeth Costello, or the figuration Elizabeth Curren, serve to elaborate the relation of author and reader. The study ends on a reading of Summertime, Diary of a Bad Year, and Dusklands as Coetzee’s engagement with autobiographical writing, analyzing the relation of author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students.

Author : Jay Rajiva
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2007
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My thesis project positions the fiction of South African author J.M. Coetzee as a critical investigation into the tradition of the European Enlightenment, which subtends, anticipates, and reifies the excesses of colonial and neocolonial imperialism. I will examine Coetzee's treatment of speech while situating his critique of capital-r reason within a larger discussion of ethical responsibility toward the Other. Using Gayatri Spivak's interrogation of the work of Immanuel Kant, I will argue that Kant's construction of reason as superior to imagination in its perception of imaginative lack when confronted with the unpresentable, sublates the lack of control that emerges if the colonist perceives the 'savage' mass of colonial territory as anything other than infinitely beyond his imaginative capacity, and therefore beyond ethical obligation. I will also present an exegesis of J.L. Austin's speech act theory that will illuminate the alliance between reason and speech in the colonial arena, drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler to locate a similarly poststructuralist impulse in two of Coetzee's early novels, Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe. Finally, I will argue that in one of Coetzee's later works, Disgrace, the power of the rational speech act gives way to a respect for the Other's suffering through an emphasis on nonverbal sound, which vectors ethical responsibility away from a model of obligation and towards a model of care that must, as Spivak contends, be alive to "the intuition that ethics are a problem of relation before they are a task of knowledge."

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226818772

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Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee is one of the most widely taught contemporary writers, but also one of the most elusive. Many critics who have addressed his work have devoted themselves to rendering it more accessible and acceptable, often playing down the features that discomfort and perplex his readers. Yet it is just these features, Derek Attridge argues, that give Coetzee's work its haunting power and offer its greatest rewards. Attridge does justice to this power and these rewards in a study that serves as an introduction for readers new to Coetzee and a stimulus for thought for those who know his work well. Without overlooking the South African dimension of his fiction, Attridge treats Coetzee as a writer who raises questions of central importance to current debates both within literary studies and more widely in the ethical arena. Implicit throughout the book is Attridge's view that literature, more than philosophy, politics, or even religion, does singular justice to our ethical impulses and acts. Attridge follows Coetzee's lead in exploring a number of issues such as interpretation and literary judgment, responsibility to the other, trust and betrayal, artistic commitment, confession, and the problematic idea of truth to the self.

Author : Pawel Wojtas
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2024-03-31
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ISBN : 1399522590

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This study offers a detailed analysis of the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, including the novels of the South African and Australian periods, to demonstrate the development of Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of non-normative embodiment. In this illuminating monograph, Pawel Wojtas demonstrates the extent to which Coetzee's multifaceted depictions of disability offer a sustained critique of the ableist implications of political violence and neoliberal inclusionism alike. Exploring a wide range of notions, such as ocularnormativism, mute speech, eco-disability, disability Gothic, dismodernism, autogerontography, and bibliotherapy, Wojtas shows how Coetzee's 'disabled textuality' provokes a sustained meditation on various forms of cultural denigration of disability experience.

Author : Y. Tzvi Langermann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 900421741X

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Fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the world explore the theological, philosophical, and historical connections between the three Abrahamic faiths and ethics. Timely reading for students of religion, philosophy, and ethics.

Author : Saba Bazargan-Forward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2020-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 135160757X

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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility comprehensively addresses questions about who is responsible and how blame or praise should be attributed when human agents act together. Such questions include: Do individuals share responsibility for the outcome or are individuals responsible only for their contribution to the act? Are individuals responsible for actions done by their group even when they don’t contribute to the outcome? Can a corporation or institution be held morally responsible apart from the responsibility of its members? The Handbook’s 35 chapters—all appearing here for the first time and written by an international team of experts—are organized into four parts: Part I: Foundations of Collective Responsibility Part II: Theoretical Issues in Collective Responsibility Part III: Domains of Collective Responsibility Part IV: Applied Issues in Collective Responsibility Each part begins with a short introduction that provides an overview of issues and debates within that area and a brief summary of its chapters. In addition, a comprehensive index allows readers to better navigate the entirety of the volume’s contents. The result is the first major work in the field that serves as an instructional aid for those in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars, as well as a reference for scholars interested in learning more about collective responsibility.