A White South African Liberal as a Hostage to the Other: Reading J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron through Levinas
Having been struck by the Levinasian aspects of J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron, this article tries to `reveal' Coetzee's novel as a Levinasian narration of how the other ruptures a specific subject's self-regarding egoism, leading the subject to take up its responsibility for the oth...
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Main Author: | JORDAAN, Eduard |
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Language: | English |
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2005
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/393 https://doi.org/10.4314/sajpem.v24i1.31411 |
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