Contents |
Introduction: Coetzee and Philosophy
Anton Leist and Peter Singer
Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics
1 The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J. M. Coetzee
Robert Pippin
2 Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa
Adriaan van Heerden
4 Torture and Collective Shame
Jeff McMahan
Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality
5 Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals
Karen Dawn and Peter Singer
6 Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics
Elisa Aaltola
7 Writing the Lives of Animals
Ido Geiger
8 Sympathy and Scapegoating in J. M. Coetzee
Andy Lamey
Part III. Rationality and Human Lives
9 Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee’s Archaic Postmodernism
Anton Leist
10 Coetzee’s Critique of Reason
Martin Woessner
11 J. M. Coetzee, Moral Thinker
Alice Crary
12 Being True to Fact: Coetzee’s Prose of the World
Pieter Vermeulen
Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy
13 Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral Vision in
Age of Iron
Samantha Vice
14 The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection
Jennifer Flynn
15 Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello
Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm