The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee, Amy Gutmann Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description 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. Publisher Description 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. Costellos son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mothers 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 mothers 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 Costellos 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. Coetzees 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 WeeklyThe 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 SupplementI 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 BookFluent, challenging lectures on the ethics that shape the human-animal relationship...Coetzee takes no prisoners...[An] ethical tinderbox. - Kirkus ReviewsA little-known but brilliant tour de force...Its the most artful, thoughtful piece of writing Ive come across on the subject of animal rights. - Marni Jackson, The Globe and Mail Author Biography J. M. Coetzee is an internationally renowned novelist, essayist, and literary critic whose many books include The Childhood of Jesus and Age of Iron. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2003. Details ISBN 0691173907 ISBN-13 9780691173900 Title The Lives of Animals Author J.M. Coetzee, Amy Gutmann Format Paperback Year 2016 Pages 144 Publisher Princeton University Press GE_Item_ID:100317455; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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