In Other Words

Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy

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ID2712410
AuthorsStephen Mulhall (0000-0002-8394-6138, Professor of Philosophy and Russell H. Carpenter Fellow in Philosophy, New College, University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2022
Publication date2022-11-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueIn Other Words (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780192869715.001.0001
OpenAlexW4309382776
Open LibraryOL38330147M
ISBN9780192869715
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

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

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Philosophy and literature · Reading (process) · Relation (database) · Theology · Trilogy · Uncanny · Vision · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Religious Education and Schools · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications

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