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Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee by Patrick Hayes Details

In the Republic of Plato, Socrates spoke of an "old quarrel between literature and philosophy" which was finally presented by banning poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers took "Socrates"…

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In the Republic of Plato, Socrates spoke of an "old quarrel between literature and philosophy" which was finally presented by banning poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers took "Socrates" in his speech, and emerged from the old quarrel a long tradition that sought to appreciate literature as a useful complement to philosophical thinking.

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Coetzee makes a great challenge to this tradition. While his writings often share philosophical themes in clear ways, I have done so with a focus on the antithesis between literary expression and philosophical thinking.

Although Koetzie has often been associated with literary literary theory, his novels have done so in a way that tended to confuse rather than confirm these theories themselves, in a wrong way in the normal processes of literary interpretation. This volume combines philosophers and literary theorists to reflect on Coetzee's challenge in their disciplines and to the disciplinary differences threatened in the old quarrel. The articles use his novel to explore questions about the boundaries between literature, philosophy and literary criticism.

The relationship between literature, theology and post-secularism; and the special ways in which literature integrates reality. How literature interacts with language philosophies, work, objectivity, ethics; and institutions that govern differences between literature and philosophy. It will be important not only to readers of Coetzee, but to anyone interested in the same old quarrel..



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