-
DEPARTAMENTOS
INTERESSE GERAL
INTERESSE GERAL 2
LIVROS TÉCNICOS
LIVROS TÉCNICOS 2
CATEGORIAS
- IMPORTADOS
J.M. Coetzees Revisions of the Human
Cód:
491_9783030293086
De: R$ 0,00Por: R$ 924,22ou X de
Kai Wiegandts study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzees revision of our core ideas of the human-not least the human sense of uniqueness that we have invested in our belief in reason and conviction of God-likeness. He persuasively analyses the careful ways through which Coetzee deploys narrative as a mode of thinking through such human and post-human questions, so developing a fresh and original approach Wiegandt calls anthropological realism. Drawing on thinkers from across the French, German and Anglophone traditions, Wiegandt has produced a fiercely insightful and committedly interdisciplinary study.- Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of OxfordJ.M. Coetzees Revisions of the Human offers a bold and compelling argument that is sure to make a serious intervention in Coetzee criticism. Wiegandt introduces several new fields of enquiry in relation to Coetzees fiction; the discussions thus reframe well-worn debates in an innovative way, making for unexpected insights in seemingly familiar critical terrain. The book opens up a valuable and thought-provoking perspective on Coetzees work, and will be of particular interest to the philosophically-minded Coetzee specialist.- Carrol Clarkson, Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature, University of AmsterdamTracking skilfully across the shifting terrain of J. M. Coetzees fictions, Kai Wiegandt draws out their philosophical and literary intertexts in this lucid, erudite and compelling book, and thereby illuminates a fundamental concern that has persisted throughout Coetzees career: to probe and push our ideas of what it is to be human.- Jarad Zimbler, author of J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of StyleThis study argues that the most consistent concern in Coetzees oeuvre is the question of what makes us human. Ideas of the human that stress language use, reason, self-consciousness, autonomy and God-likeness are
Veja mais
