Description |
1 online resource (128 pages) |
Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 -- Novilla: The Deviant Pupil -- PART 2 -- Estrella: The Marionette -- PART 3 -- Estrella: The Orphan -- Bibliography -- Index |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed December 1, 2023) |
Subject |
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Childhood of Jesus
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Schooldays of Jesus
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Death of Jesus
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SUBJECT |
Childhood of Jesus (Coetzee, J. M.) fast |
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Philosophy in literature.
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Philosophy, European.
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Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy in literature
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Philosophy
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Philosophy, European
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literature.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780192696755 |
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0192696750 |
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0192696769 |
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9780191965845 |
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0191965847 |
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9780192696762 |
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