J.M. Coetzee and Ethics

TLDR: In this article, Agamben, Giorgio, 232, 237 agency, 24, 35, 38n8 Age of Iron (Coetzee): “Bheki” in, 295, 297, 303, 5, 307, 10, 312; “Vercueil” and “Curren” as epistolary novel, 9, 236; location of, 23; love in 295, 97, 305, 12, 314n28; moral point of view of, 293; realms of duty in, 303; style

Abstract: ion, particularity vs., 303–4 acknowledgment, disgrace and, 277–80 activism, 133–34 Adorno, T. W., 232–33 aesthetics, 5 Agamben, Giorgio, 232, 237 agency, 24, 35, 38n8 Age of Iron (Coetzee): “Bheki” in, 295, 297, 303–5, 307–10, 312; “Elizabeth Curren” in, 9, 234–37, 293, 295–97, 300–312, 314n28, 315n33, 356n39, 371, 383n55; as epistolary novel, 9, 236; location of, 23; love in, 295–97, 305–12, 314n28; moral point of view of, 293; realms of duty in, 303–5; style of, 298–303; “Vercueil” in, 9, 297, 305–10, 312 allegory, 7, 28, 184, 201–2 alternative animal ethics: critique of, 134–40; elements of, 119–22, 141; standard animal ethics vs., 120–24 amoralism, creativity and, 10–11 analytic animal ethics, 142n24 analytic philosophy, 3–4, 119, 197–98 animal ethics: analytic, 142n24; classical present view in, 221n24; Diamond on, 136–38; experientialism in, 119–20; identification in, 125–28, 140; interaction and, 140; in The Lives of Animals, 119–20, 124, 214–17; nature of morality and, 179; in philosophy, 119, 127; polemics of, 124; standard, 120–24, 135. See also alternative animal ethics animals: activism and, 133–34; apes, 116, 121, 154–59, 162–63, 180–81, 213–14, 222n27, 326–27, 338; desire of, 274; in Diary of a Bad Year, 115; in Disgrace, 10, 52, 54–59, 110–11, 128–31, 134, 146, 148–50, 162, 238–39, 259–61, 281; disgrace and, 147; dog-Antigone and, 146, 148; dog-man and, 43, 54–59; domesticated, 127–28; “Elizabeth Costello” and, 10–13, 38n10, 56–57, 109–17, 120–26, 131–35, 138, 151–54, 178–79, 189, 214–17, 319–24, 327–29, 338–43, 348–49; ethics of sympathy and, 173–81, 186; Holocaust analogy and, 111, 115, 122–23, 131–35, 143nn25–26, 153, 172–74, 178, 181, 188, 339–40; humanity and, 127; killing of, 215; kindness to, 56; in The Lives of Animals, 109–10, 113–14, 116, 119–20, 124, 131–34, 146, 150–54, 214–17; in The Master of Petersburg, 56; mental abilities of, 134–35, 138; Nobel Prize and, 117; particularity of, 140; postmodernism and, 127; research on, 126; rights of, 321–22; scapegoating and, 172; suffering of, 175, 288n35; treatment Index