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The Ethical Responsibility of the Writer: George Eliot Meets Elizabeth Costello
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George Eliot is often named as the greatest writer of realist fiction in the English language. For her, realism entailed a commitment to truthfulness. She once referred to her novels as faithfully mirroring life and compared the role of the responsible author to that of a witness giving evidence under oath. More recently J. M. Coetzee has Elizabeth Costello question what realism might mean today and what is the ethical responsibility of the writer. Moira Gatens aims to construct a conversation between these writers, and their personae, in order to explore the ethics of writing and reading.

Presented with the School of Philosophy, Monash University.

Lecture  |  Nonfiction, Fiction
Participants
Moira Gatens

When
Friday, May 22 2009
16:00 - 17:00

Where
Sydney Dance Company, Studio 2/3
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
Free

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MOIRA GATENS (LOCAL)
MOIRA GATENS is professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and currently holds an Australian Research Council professorial fellowship. Her present research project is in the area of philosophy and literature, and concerns Spinoza, Feuerbach and George Eliot and their views on the relationships between the imagination, religion and morality. As well as numerous articles in social and political philosophy, she is the author of Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality, and Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present, co-authored with Genevieve Lloyd. In 2008 she was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.