Name: The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series) (en Inglés)
SKU: 48431064
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Author: J. M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9780691173900

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The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

J. M. Coetzee

Ilustrado por

Amy Gutmann

Introducción de

Amy Gutmann

Editorial

Princeton University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

144

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.3x13.7x1.3 cm

Peso

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9780691173900

Categorías

Animales y sociedad
Filosofía ética y moral
Fauna: interés general

The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series) (en Inglés)

J. M. Coetzee (Autor) · Amy Gutmann (Ilustrado por, Introducción de) · Princeton University Press · Tapa Blanda

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The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority. At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and skeptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological, and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but--dare he admit it?--strangely on target. In this landmark book, Nobel Prize-winning writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. Literature, philosophy, performance, and deep human conviction--Coetzee brings all these elements into play. As in the story of Elizabeth Costello, the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields. Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger, primatologist Barbara Smuts, literary theorist Marjorie Garber, and moral philosopher Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation. Together the lecture-fable and the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict and confrontation.

J. M. Coetzee

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John Maxwell Coetzee (Ciudad del Cabo, 1940) es un escritor sudafricano nacionalizado australiano, reconocido por su estilo sobrio y su enfoque en temas como el poder, la identidad y la ética. Estudió literatura en las universidades de Ciudad del Cabo y Texas, y ha sido profesor en la Universidad de Ciudad del Cabo. En 2003, recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura por su contribución a las letras universales.

Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentran Vida y época de Michael K (1983), galardonada con el Premio Booker ese mismo año, y Desgracia (1999), que también recibió el Booker Prize, convirtiéndolo en el primer autor en obtenerlo dos veces. Otras novelas notables incluyen Esperando a los bárbaros (1980), Foe (1986) y Elizabeth Costello (2003). Su producción literaria abarca novelas, ensayos y autobiografías.

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