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In other words : transpositions of philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' trilogy / Stephen Mulhall.

Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy Available online

Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy
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English
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (128 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
Transpositions of philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' trilogy
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Summary:
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.
Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PART 1
  • Novilla: The Deviant Pupil
  • PART 2
  • Estrella: The Marionette
  • PART 3
  • Estrella: The Orphan
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
Notes:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on September 27, 2022).
Other Format:
Print version: Mulhall, Stephen In Other Words
ISBN:
  • 0-19-196584-7
  • 0-19-269675-0
  • 0-19-269676-9
OCLC:
1349278713
Publisher Number:
10.1093/oso/9780192869715.001.0001 DOI

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