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J. M. Coetzee The Lives of Animals (livre de poche) Princeton Classics
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Book Title
- Lives of Animals
- Publication Name
- The Lives of Animals
- Title
- The Lives of Animals
- EAN
- 9780691173900
- ISBN
- 9780691173900
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2016
- Release Date
- 04/10/2016
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Weight
- 5 oz
- Contributor
- Amy Gutmann (Introduction by)
- Language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0691173907
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Nature, Philosophy, Fiction
- Series
- Princeton Classics
- Topic
- General, Animals / General
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority. At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and skeptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological, and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but -- dare he admit it? -- strangely on target. In this landmark book, Nobel Prize-winning writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. Literature, philosophy, performance, and deep human conviction -- Coetzee brings all these elements into play. As in the story of Elizabeth Costello, the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields. Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger, primatologist Barbara Smuts, literary theorist Marjorie Garber, and moral philosopher Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation . Together the lecture-fable and the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict and confrontation. 'The audience of the 1997-98 Tanner Lectures at Princeton probably expected South African novelist Coetzee to deliver a pair of formal essays...Instead, he gave his listeners fiction: a philosophical narrative about an imaginary feminist novelist...and the lectures she reads at the fictional Appleton College.' -- Publishers Weekly 'The Lives of Animals is a moral argument within a fictional framework...But fiction has the power to disturb and inspire strong emotions, and this book, thoughtfully argued and committed, is certainly a case in point.' -- Maren Meinhardt, Times Literary Supplement 'I found The Lives of Animals a genuinely troubling book...I imagine that Coetzee feels the force of almost all the ideas and emotions that his characters express. He is working and living at the edge of our moral sensibilities about animals.' -- Ian Hacking, The New York Review of Book 'Fluent, challenging lectures on the ethics that shape the human-animal relationship...Coetzee takes no prisoners...[An] ethical tinderbox.' -- Kirkus Reviews 'A little-known but brilliant tour de force...It's the most artful, thoughtful piece of writing I've come across on the subject of animal rights.' -- Marni Jackson, The Globe and Mail
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691173907
ISBN-13
9780691173900
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222055076
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lives of Animals
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Animals / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Nature, Philosophy, Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
5 oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
43
Lc Classification Number
Hv4708.L57 2016
Reviews
The Lives of Animals is a stimulating and worrying book. It is hard to imagine anyone coming away from it without a new perspective on our relation not only to animals but to the natural world in general, and, indeed, to ourselves. ---John Banville, The Irish Times, "An accessible, thought-provoking introduction to the issues surrounding animal rights." --Adam Lively, The Sunday Telegraph, " The Lives of Animals is a stimulating and worrying book. It is hard to imagine anyone coming away from it without a new perspective on our relation not only to animals but to the natural world in general, and, indeed, to ourselves." --John Banville, The Irish Times, The audience of the 1997-98 Tanner Lectures at Princeton probably expected South African novelist Coetzee to deliver a pair of formal essays. . . . Instead, he gave his listeners fiction: a philosophical narrative about an imaginary feminist novelist . . . and the lectures she reads at the fictional Appleton College., "The audience of the 1997-98 Tanner Lectures at Princeton probably expected South African novelist Coetzee to deliver a pair of formal essays. . . . Instead, he gave his listeners fiction: a philosophical narrative about an imaginary feminist novelist . . . and the lectures she reads at the fictional Appleton College." -- Publishers Weekly, Fluent, challenging lectures on the ethics that shape the human-animal relationship. . . . Coetzee takes no prisoners. . . . [An] ethical tinderbox., "For Coetzee fans and others interested in the links between philosophy, reason, and the rights of nonhumans." -- Booklist, "If Coetzee . . . were an animal, he would be a fox-quick, aloof and crafty. . . . [A]nimal rights and ethical vegetarianism are natural subjects for him. The debate about them turns on questions of suffering, something to which Coetzee's sensorium is pitched with particular keenness." --Benjamin Kunkel, The Nation, The Lives of Animals is a moral argument within a fictional framework. . . . But fiction has the power to disturb and inspire strong emotions, and this book, thoughtfully argued and committed, is certainly a case in point. ---Maren Meinhardt, Times Literary Supplement, I found The Lives of Animals a genuinely troubling book. . . . I imagine that Coetzee feels the force of almost all the ideas and emotions that his characters express. He is working and living at the edge of our moral sensibilities about animals. ---Ian Hacking, The New York Review of Books, An accessible, thought-provoking introduction to the issues surrounding animal rights. ---Adam Lively, The Sunday Telegraph, "Fluent, challenging lectures on the ethics that shape the human-animal relationship. . . . Coetzee takes no prisoners. . . . [An] ethical tinderbox." -- Kirkus Reviews, If Coetzee . . . were an animal, he would be a fox-quick, aloof and crafty. . . . [A]nimal rights and ethical vegetarianism are natural subjects for him. The debate about them turns on questions of suffering, something to which Coetzee's sensorium is pitched with particular keenness. ---Benjamin Kunkel, The Nation, For Coetzee fans and others interested in the links between philosophy, reason, and the rights of nonhumans., There is a general message that resonates throughout this novella, and one that I found quite compelling. It is that we often assess our relationships with animals based on whether they have human-like mental status, like rationality or self-consciousness, and if they don't, then we feel justified in using them as objects . . . I found the book deeply disturbing . . . [It] offers a passionate and compelling look at one side of the debate. ---Asif A. Ghazanfar, Nature Neuroscience, "Coetzee stirs our imaginations by confronting us with an articulate, intelligent, aging, and increasingly alienated novelist who cannot help but be exasperated with her fellow human beings, many of them academics, who are unnecessarily cruel to animals, and apparently (but not admittedly) committed to cruelty. The story urges us to reconceive our devotion to reason as a universal value." --From the introduction by Amy Gutmann, "A little-known but brilliant tour de force. . . . It's the most artful, thoughtful piece of writing I've come across on the subject of animal rights." --Marni Jackson, The Globe and Mail, "[A] beautifully constructed, troubling, provacative book which resonates in the mind and heart long after you've turned the last page." --Helen Kaye, The Jerusalem Post, A little-known but brilliant tour de force. . . . It's the most artful, thoughtful piece of writing I've come across on the subject of animal rights. ---Marni Jackson, The Globe and Mail, "Coetzee's dense, witty hybrid is very welcome; . . . [he] brings a rich array of themes into play, including the differences between animals and humans, the nature of philosophy and poetry, the purpose of a university, the role of a reason and the emotions in moral deliberation." --Ben Rogers, Financial Times, "Magnificent. . . . Coetzee's powerful and subtle text is irreducibly about real animal suffering, but it is also about much more." --Phil Baker, Sunday Times (London), "I found The Lives of Animals a genuinely troubling book. . . . I imagine that Coetzee feels the force of almost all the ideas and emotions that his characters express. He is working and living at the edge of our moral sensibilities about animals." --Ian Hacking, The New York Review of Books, "Coetzee stirs our imaginations by confronting us with an articulate, intelligent, aging, and increasingly alienated novelist who cannot help but be exasperated with her fellow human beings, many of them academics, who are unnecessarily cruel to animals, and apparently (but not admittedly) committed to cruelty. The story urges us to reconceive our devotion to reason as a universal value." 'e"From the introduction by Amy Gutmann, Coetzee's dense, witty hybrid is very welcome; . . . [he] brings a rich array of themes into play, including the differences between animals and humans, the nature of philosophy and poetry, the purpose of a university, the role of a reason and the emotions in moral deliberation. ---Ben Rogers, Financial Times, [A] beautifully constructed, troubling, provacative book which resonates in the mind and heart long after you've turned the last page. ---Helen Kaye, The Jerusalem Post, "There is a general message that resonates throughout this novella, and one that I found quite compelling. It is that we often assess our relationships with animals based on whether they have human-like mental status, like rationality or self-consciousness, and if they don't, then we feel justified in using them as objects . . . I found the book deeply disturbing . . . [It] offers a passionate and compelling look at one side of the debate." --Asif A. Ghazanfar, Nature Neuroscience, " The Lives of Animals is a moral argument within a fictional framework. . . . But fiction has the power to disturb and inspire strong emotions, and this book, thoughtfully argued and committed, is certainly a case in point." --Maren Meinhardt, Times Literary Supplement, "Magnificent. . . . Coetzee's powerful and subtle text is irreducibly about real animal suffering, but it is also about much more." 'e"Phil Baker, Sunday Times (London)
Copyright Date
2017
Dewey Decimal
823
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
The University Center for Human Values Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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