J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture by Gibson, Andrew

J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198857914)

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J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture by Gibson, Andrew

J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture

$95.00
J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture by Gibson, Andrew

J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book presents J. M. Coetzee's work as a complex, nuanced counterblast to contemporary, global, neoliberal economics and its societies. Not surprisingly, given his many years in South Africa and Australia, Coetzee writes from a global-Southern' perspective. Drawing on a wealth of literature, philosophy, and theory, the book reads Coetzee's writings as a discreet, oblique but devastating engagement with neoliberal presumptions. It identifies and focuses on various key features of neoliberal culture: its obsession with self-enrichment, mastery, growth; its belief in plenitude, endless resources; its hubris and obsession with (self)-promotion; its desire for ease and easiness, well-being', euphoria; its fetishization of managerial reason and the culture of security; its unrelenting positivity, its belief in illusory goods and trivial progressivisms. By contrast, Coetzee's writings explore the virtues of irony and self-reduction. He commits himself to difficulty, discomfort, patient and austere, if bleak, inquiry, rigorous questioning, and radical doubt. Destitution and failure come to look like a serious, dignified form of life and thought. The very tones of Coetzee's books run counter to those of our neoliberal democracies. They point in a different direction to an age that has gone astray.

Author: Andrew Gibson
ISBN-10: 0198857918
ISBN-13: 9780198857914
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.44w x 0.92d
By Andrew Gibson
By Andrew Gibson
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Andrew Gibson, Professor Emeritus in Modern Literature and Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London

Andrew Gibson was educated at Lord Williams's Grammar School, Thame and St. John's College, Oxford. He has held positions at the University of Hong Kong, the University of London, and Northwestern University. He is Professor Emeritus in Modern Literature and Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo and the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide.

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