In Other Words

Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-286971-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulhall, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Mulhall is Professor of Philosophy and Russell H. Carpenter Fellow in Philosophy at New College, University of Oxford. He has published many books on the intersection of art and philosophy, including The Self and Its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts and The Ascetic Ideal: Genealogies of Life-Denial in Religion, Morality, Art, Science, and
Philosophy.