Wounded Animal
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A Modest Proposal
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Aestheticism
Allegory
Anathema
Anecdote
Anguish
Animal rights
Animality
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Begging the question
Boredom
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Consciousness
Criticism
Critique
Dasein
Disgust
Distrust
Elizabeth Costello
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Ethics
Etymology
Euthanasia
Existence
Falsity
For All Practical Purposes
Genre
God
Good and evil
Hamlet's Father
Hard problem of consciousness
Hypocrisy
Idealism
Impossible world
Indication (medicine)
Irony
Language game
Lecture
Literary realism
Literature
Martin Heidegger
Moderate realism
Moral relativism
Morality
Narrative
Novelist
Obscenity
Only Words (book)
Personhood
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Poetry
Pseudophilosophy
Racism
Rationality
Reality
Reason
Reasonable person
Relativism
Requirement
Scholasticism
Self-image
Skepticism
Slow Man
Soren Kierkegaard
Suggestion
Superiority (short story)
The Philosopher
The Realist
Thought
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691137377
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, and the imagination, as well as more specific ethical issues concerning the moral status of animals, the meaning of mortality, the nature of evil, and the demands of religion. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature here displays undiminished vigor and renewed significance.
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).
