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J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture (Hardcover)
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J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture (Hardcover)
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This book presents J. M. Coetzee's work as a complex, nuanced
counterblast to contemporary, global, neoliberal economics and its
societies. Not surprisingly, given his many years in South Africa
and Australia, Coetzee writes from a `global-Southern' perspective.
Drawing on a wealth of literature, philosophy, and theory, the book
reads Coetzee's writings as a discreet, oblique but devastating
engagement with neoliberal presumptions. It identifies and focuses
on various key features of neoliberal culture: its obsession with
self-enrichment, mastery, growth; its belief in plenitude, endless
resources; its hubris and obsession with (self)-promotion; its
desire for ease and easiness, `well-being', euphoria; its
fetishization of managerial reason and the culture of security; its
unrelenting positivity, its belief in illusory goods and trivial
progressivisms. By contrast, Coetzee's writings explore the virtues
of irony and self-reduction. He commits himself to difficulty,
discomfort, patient and austere, if bleak, inquiry, rigorous
questioning, and radical doubt. Destitution and failure come to
look like a serious, dignified form of life and thought. The very
tones of Coetzee's books run counter to those of our neoliberal
democracies. They point in a different direction to an age that has
gone astray.
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