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The Lives of Animals
by J. M. Coetzee
ISBN: 069107089X
ISBN-13: 9780691070896
Format: Paperback
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Summary
These angry lectures about the ethics of the human-animal relationship were given at Princeton, ostensibly by a novelist named Elizabeth Costello; this volume also includes commentary on Coetzee's ideas by Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Windy Doniger, and Barbara Smuts.
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"Frankly, there are going to be some who say this is the sort of exercise that gives intellectual discourse a bad name, and while I'm sympathetic to the cause, I'll have to agree with them-with the glowing exception of Smuts' essay, this is arid, didactic stuff....That doesn't make THE LIVES OF ANIMALS bad-Booker Prize-winning Coetzee has no trouble turning a phrase or crisply encapsulating an idea-but it does make it unlikely that it's going to find much of an audience beyond the converted, or those paid to write reviews." -- Douglas Cruickshank
-- Salon
"For Costello (and perhaps Coetzee) the writer, not only is it possible to imagine oneself as another being, and thus to empathize with that being's suffering (the absence which she feels was the Nazis' greatest crime), but through the poetic mind we can 'bring the living body into being within ourselves.' This offers us a more profoundly transformative experience of animals than discovered through philosophy. Costello acknowledges the irony that this experience does not mean we have to treat animals better, merely that we depict them and ourselves in a truer, less self-indulgent light." -- Martin Rowe
"THE LIVES OF ANIMALS is a strange book, as surprising and idiosyncratic as anything Coetzee has ever written." -- Elizabeth Lowry
-- London Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published date: 2001
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.5 pounds
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The Lives of Animals (The University Center Fro Human Values Series) (Qty: 56)
J. M. Coetzee, Amy Gutmann
Princeton University Press, 01-Jul-2001. Paperback. NEW. Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: U20081008090939G ( more information) Offered by A1Books (United States)
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The Lives of Animals
Coetzee, J. M
Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton Univ Pr, 2001. Pages are tight, clear and clean. Binding firm and straight. No conspicuous reading wear. If needed for reference, research, analysis, dissertation, lucubrations or just enjoyment this is the one. 127 pages, indexed. Covers, spine, edges and corners good+. . Number Line 357910864. Soft Cover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 9 1/4 X 6. ( more information) Offered by Charles E. Peck (United States)
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