The limits of sympathy: J. M. Coetzee's evolving ethics of engagement.

ARIEL | January 1, 2005| | Copyright 
 
  "It helps to try to imagine ourselves into her argument" 
  (Linda Kintz Between Jesus 29)

I would like to open this article with two quotations: "Despite Thomas Nagel, who is probably a good man, despite Thomas Aquinas and Rene Descartes, with whom I have more difficulty in sympathizing, there is no limit to the extent to which we can think ourselves into the being of another. There are no bounds to the sympathetic imagination" (Coetzee, The Lives of Animals 35); "We are invited to understand and sympathize. But there is a limit to sympathy. For though he lives ...

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