J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism

by Hallemeier, Katherine

• ISBN13: 9781137352545
• ISBN10: 113735254X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism draws on postcolonial and gender studies as well as affect theory to interrogate cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Katherine Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the reading of literature. The book foregrounds a question as central both to Coetzee's later fiction and to contemporary cosmopolitan thought: is it possible to apprehend 'humankind' without eliding the distinctiveness of 'other lives'?

Author Biography

Katherine Hallemeier is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Anglophone Literature in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and Feeling
1: Sympathy and Cosmopolitanism
2: John Coetzee and Rational Cosmopolitanism
3: Elizabeth Costello and Affective Cosmopolitanism
4: Shame and Cosmopolitanism
5: J.M. Coetzee and Nonhuman Cosmopolitanism
Epilogue: Leave Taking