The Lives of Animals
：The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]
( The University Center for Human Values Series )
Publication subTitle ：The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]
Publication series ：The University Center for Human Values Series
Author： Coetzee J. M.;Gutmann Amy;Gutmann Amy
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9781400883523
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691173900
Subject： B82-059 其他
Keyword： 动物学,哲学、宗教,世界文学
Language： ENG
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Description
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world.
Costello’s son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother’s lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother’s vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority.
At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and skeptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological, and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but—dare he admit it?—strangely on target.
In this landmark book, Nobel Prize–winning writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello’s own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the Un
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