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Metaphysical Exile - On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions (Hardcover)
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Metaphysical Exile - On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions (Hardcover)
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Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" fictions
constitute a trilogy of novels that have appeared over the last
decade. They stand out from his earlier work in their difficulty,
and in the central role they accord philosophy-in part through
their interest in specific themes in which philosophy is
interested, in part through their critical engagement with
philosophy as a mode of intellectual activity, with a very
particular role to play in the broader cultural concerns of modern
Western Europe. Robert Pippin presents the first detailed
interpretation of J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" trilogy as a whole. In
order to understand them, he treats the three fictions as a
philosophical fable, in the tradition of Plato's Republic, More's
Utopia, Rousseau's Emile, or Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In
the trilogy's mythical setting, everyone is an exile, removed from
their homeland and transported to a strange new place, with most of
their memories of their homeland erased. Pippin treats these
fictions as philosophical explorations of the implications of a
deeper kind of spiritual homelessness-a version that characterizes
late modern life itself-and he sees the theme of forgetting as a
figure for modern historical amnesia and indifference to reflection
and self-knowledge. This state of exile is interpreted as
metaphysical as well as geographical. Pippin's insightful, careful
reading of Coetzee suggests the limitations of traditional
philosophical treatments of themes like eros, beauty, social order,
art, family, non-discursive forms of intelligibility,
self-deception, and death. And he wrings from the trilogy its
intertextuality, and many references to the Christian Bible, Plato,
Cervantes, Goethe, Kleist, and Wittgenstein, among others.
Throughout, Pippin expresses the potential of literature to be a
profound form of philosophical reflection.
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