Bibliograph

The lives of animals, J.M. Coetzee [and others] ; edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann

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The lives of animals, J.M. Coetzee [and others] ; edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The lives of animals

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

39655281

Responsibility statement

J.M. Coetzee [and others] ; edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann

Series statement

University Center for Human Values series

Summary

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. Here the internationally renowned 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. 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

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Amy Gutmann -- The lives of animals / J.M. Coetzee ; The philosophers and the animals ; The poets and the animals -- Reflections / Marjorie Garber ; Peter Singer ; Wendy Doniger ; Barbara Smuts

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