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Beyond the Ancient Quarrel - Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Ancient Quarrel - Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee (Hardcover)
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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.
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