Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
Beyond the Ancient Quarrel -

Beyond the Ancient Quarrel

Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee

Patrick Hayes, Jan Wilm (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2017
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-880528-1 (ISBN)
CHF 126,10 inkl. MwSt
Beyond the Ancient Quarrel brings together contributions from leading scholars to explore the boundaries between literature, philosophy, and literary criticism in the work of J.M. Coetzee.
In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient quarrel there has emerged a long tradition that has sought to value literature chiefly as a useful supplement to philosophical reasoning. The fiction of J.M. Coetzee makes a striking challenge to this tradition. While his writing has frequently engaged philosophical subjects in explicit ways, it has done so with an emphasis on the dissonance between literary expression and philosophical reasoning. And while Coetzee has often overtly engaged with academic literary theory, his fiction has done so in a way that has tended to disorient rather than affirm those same theories, wrong-footing the normal processes of literary interpretation.

This volume brings together philosophers and literary theorists to reflect upon the challenge Coetzee has made to their respective disciplines, and to the disciplinary distinctions at stake in the ancient quarrel. The essays use his fiction to explore questions about the boundaries between literature, philosophy, and literary criticism; the relationship between literature, theology, and post-secularism; the particular ways in which literature engages reality; how literature interacts with the philosophies of language, action, subjectivity, and ethics; and the institutions that govern the distinctions between literature and philosophy. It will be of importance not only to readers of Coetzee, but to anyone interested in the ancient quarrel itself.

Patrick Hayes is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, and a Fellow of St John's College. He is the author of Philip Roth: Fiction and Power (OUP, 2014) and J. M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett (OUP, 2010). Jan Wilm is a Lecturer in English Literature at Goethe University. He is co-editor, with Mark Nixon, of Samuel Beckett und die deutsche Literatur (Transcript, 2013) and author of The Slow Philosophy of J. M. Coetzee (Bloomsbury, 2016). He also works as a literary critic and a literary translator.

PART I. UNSETTLING BOUNDARIES: PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND LITERARY CRITICISM; PAR II. ETHICS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY; PART III. REALITY, LANGUAGE, AND SUBJECTIVITY; PART IV. CONTEXTS AND INSTITUTIONS

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 241 mm
Gewicht 552 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-880528-4 / 0198805284
ISBN-13 978-0-19-880528-1 / 9780198805281
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich

von Barbara Zehnpfennig

Buch | Softcover (2024)
Junius Verlag
CHF 22,25
eine Einführung

von Bettina Fröhlich

Buch | Softcover (2023)
Phillip Reclam (Verlag)
CHF 13,70

von Malte Hossenfelder

Buch | Softcover (2024)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 26,90