Unthinking Mastery
128 chApter four benefits of bounded feline domesticity) to the prescribed roles of animal “pet” and human “owner.” Cassie dispo ...
humAnImAl dIspossessIons 129 she is, Cassie responded to these dynamic forms of creaturely becoming with striking attentiveness. ...
130 chApter four I admit to being deeply pained by this stage, not only because it feels “final” but because I am haunted by a f ...
humAnImAl dIspossessIons 131 tia of old age, and I was, admittedly, annoyed at her “neediness” during my few sacred child- free ...
132 chApter four aging, white postcolonial novelist invited to deliver lectures at a prestigious U.S. academic institution. The ...
humAnImAl dIspossessIons 133 emphasizes this foundational postcolonial critique but extends its poten- tial beyond the human. Th ...
134 chApter four author and protagonist, and between human and animal. In a sense, Coe- tzee’s lecture- narrative—perhaps especi ...
humAnImAl dIspossessIons 135 the genre becomes an alibi that absolves the author of responsibility. At- tridge refuses this logi ...
136 chApter four currents. A disciplined scholar has authority by virtue of having “mastered” a body of knowledge and guards aga ...
humAnImAl dIspossessIons 137 that reason looks to her “suspiciously... like the being of one tendency in human thought” (Coetzee ...
138 chApter four intercourse with women. Undoubtedly, Costello’s willingness to “become” an animal is vitally different from Ani ...
humAnImAl dIspossessIons 139 Does she want to convert her audience to vegetarianism? Does she want more humane treatment for ani ...
140 chApter four act of listening as absolutely central to understanding. Recall that Costello urges her audience members to “li ...
humAnImAl dIspossessIons 141 closures of disciplinarity. Through her attention to metaphorical language, Costello enables us to ...
142 chApter four the sympathetic imagination defies this mastery by extending itself to that which thought cannot foreclose. (Th ...
humAnImAl dIspossessIons 143 name of empathy that I criticized in the preceding chapter. But I want to suggest that Costello is ...
144 chApter four posable object that is likened to the Holocaust victim as tortured subject. As metaphor, however, the animal is ...
humAnImAl dIspossessIons 145 son by issuing a comparison that renders the Jew as disposable as livestock. Stern’s subject positi ...
146 chApter four and new lines of sight—and not simply as reproducing already given en- tities that either are or are not ‘like’ ...
humAnImAl dIspossessIons 147 claims to a universal human subject, a point I have laid stress on in chap- ter 1. Subsequently, I ...
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