{"product_id":"the-wounded-animal-stephen-mulhall-9780691137377","title":"The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature Anj. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, and reappeared in 2003 as part of his novel \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Costello\u003c\/i\u003e; 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Wounded Animal\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Mulhall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691137374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691137377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2009","brand":"Stephen Mulhall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054491463935,"sku":"9780691137377","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_262673b9-6ab6-47e6-a0c4-955940c278d7.jpg?v=1685030274","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wounded-animal-stephen-mulhall-9780691137377","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}