
In Other Words
Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy
Stephen Mulhall(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 17. November 2022
Book
Hardback
138 pages
978-0-19-286971-5 (ISBN)
Description
J. M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy extends and intensifies his long-term interest in engaging with a wide range of texts, themes and assumptions that help constitute the history of Western European philosophy. In this commentary, Stephen Mulhall extends his own earlier work on Coetzee's previous stagings of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature by identifying and following out various ways in which the 'Jesus' Trilogy activates and interrogates themes drawn from Wittgenstein's later philosophy. These themes include rival conceptions of counting and reading, the relation between concepts and wider forms of life, and the intertwined fate of philosophy, literature and religion in a resolutely secular world. In these ways, Wittgenstein's, and so Coetzee's, visions of the world disclose their uncanny intimacy with issues and values central to the critique of modernity elaborated in the work of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
308 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-286971-5 (9780192869715)
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Person
Stephen Mulhall is Professor of Philosophy and Russell H. Carpenter Fellow in Philosophy at New College, University of Oxford. He has published many books on the intersection of art and philosophy, including The Self and Its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts and The Ascetic Ideal: Genealogies of Life-Denial in Religion, Morality, Art, Science, and Philosophy.
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Professor of Philosophy and Russell H. Carpenter Fellow in PhilosophyProfessor of Philosophy and Russell H. Carpenter Fellow in Philosophy, New College, University of Oxford
Content
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part One
Novilla: The Deviant Pupil
Part Two
Estrella: The Marionette
Part Three
Estrella: The Orphan
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Part One
Novilla: The Deviant Pupil
Part Two
Estrella: The Marionette
Part Three
Estrella: The Orphan
Bibliography
Index