J.M. Coetzee and ethics: philosophical perspectives on literature

Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics

The paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J.M. Coetzee / Robert Pippin

Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa / Adriaan van Heerden

Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year / Jonathan Lear

Torture and Collective Shame / Jeff McMahan

Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality

Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals / Karen Dawn and Peter Singer

Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics / Eilisa Aaltola

Writing the Lives of Animals / Ido Geiger

Sympathy and Scapegoating in H.M. Coetzee / Andy Lamey

Part III. Rationality and Human Lives

Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism / Anton Leist

Coetzee's Critique of Reason / Martin Woessner

J.M. Cietzee, Moral Thinker / Alice Crary

Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World / Pieter Vermeulen

Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy

Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral vision in Age of Iron / Samantha Vice

The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection / Jennifer Flynn

Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello / Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm

Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche / Alena Dvorakova