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Author:   Patrick Ha, Jan Wilm 

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.

Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee 1st Table of contents:

1. Ancient Quarrels, Modern Contexts: An Introduction
I. Unsettling Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and Literary Criticism
2. Health and Deviance, Irony and Incarnation: Embedding and Embodying Philosophy in Literature and Theology in The Childhood of Jesus
The Just City
Child and Elder
Benengeli’s Cave
Filling a Gap in the Good Book
3. Attuning Philosophy and Literary Criticism: A Response to In the Heart of the Country
Attunement and In The Heart Of The Country
The Spinning of the Spider
Brackets and what they Dis-enclose
Attunement in Review
4. Double Thoughts: Coetzee and the Philosophy of Literary Criticism
Coetzee and Theory
Literary Criticism and its Limits
Beyond the Limits: Foe
5. ‘Good paragraphing. Unusual content’: On the Making and Unmaking of Novelistic Worlds
Against Application
Mundophoria and Mundophobia
The Richness of Reduction
The Oeuvre on Display
II. Ethics and Moral Philosophy
6. ‘A Yes without a No’: Philosophical Reason and the Ethics of Conversion in Coetzee’s Fiction
The Look of the Animal
Cats and the Conversion Experience
The View from Philosophy
The Riskiness of Ethics
Literary Form, Ethics, and the Limits of Reason
7. Coetzee and Eros: A Critique of Moral Philosophy
Morality and Being One Among Others
The Frailty of Moral Reasons
Eros and Philosophical Ascent
Eros and the Reality of Others
III. Reality, Language, and Subjectivity
8. Coetzee’s Quest for Reality
Varieties of Literary Realism
The Drive Towards Reality in Disgrace and Waiting for the Barbarians
A Philosophical Reading of The Childhood of Jesus
9. Beyond Realism: Coetzee’s Post-Secular Imagination
The ‘Temptation to Realism’
Resisting the Real
Imagining the Possible
Radical Hope
10. Coetzee’s Critique of Language
Lit.Phil or Phil.Lit?
Mauthner’s Critique of Language
Coetzee and Linguistic Relativity
Mauthneresque Literary Forays
Beyond Flaubert: Disgrace
Living Reading
11. Coetzee and Psychoanalysis: From Paranoia to Aporia
Lacan’s Allegories and Paranoia
The Subject Supposed not to Know
Truth vs. Fiction: An Aporia
IV. Contexts and Institutions
12. ‘Wisselbare Woorde’: J. M. Coetzee and Postcolonial Philosophy
Wisselbare Woorde
Steve Biko, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee
Ethics and Politics of Literary Representation
Ethics and Politics of Address
Countervoices
Other Modes of Resistance: Frantz Fanon and J. M. Coetzee
13. The J. M. Coetzee Archive and the Archive in J. M. Coetzee
The J. M. Coetzee Archive
Uses of the Archive
The Archive in J. M. Coetzee
Bibliography

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