Trouble with strangers : a study of ethics

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Author:

Eagleton, Terry, 1943-

ISBN:

9781405185738

9781405185721

Personal Author:

Eagleton, Terry, 1943-

Publication Information:

Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2009.

Physical Description:

vii, 347 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

The insistence of the imaginary -- Introduction: The mirror stage -- Sentiment and sensibility -- Francis Hutcheson and David Hume -- Edmund Burke and Adam Smith -- The sovereignty of the symbolic -- Introduction: The symbolic order -- Spinoza and the death of desire -- Kant and the moral law -- Law and desire in measure for measure -- The reign of the real -- Introduction: Pure desire -- Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- Fictions of the real -- Levinas, Derrida and Badiou -- The banality of goodness.

Subject Term:

Ethics.

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TROUBLE WITH STRANGERS

'Written in Eagleton's very readable, clear and witty style, this book may achieve the unthinkable: bridging the gap between academic High Thought and popular philosophy manuals.'
Slavoj Zizek

'This is a fine book. It is hugely ambitious in its scope, develops an original thesis to illuminating effect and is written with a compelling passion and commitment.'
Peter R. Sedgwick, Cardiff University

'Written with Eagleton's usual wit, panache and uncanny ability to summarise and criticize otherwise complex philosophical positions ... this is an important book by a hugely important voice.'
Simon Critchley, The New School for Social Research

In this ambitious new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the world's greatest cultural theorists, turns his attention to the now much-discussed question of ethics. In a work full of rare insights into tragedy, politics, literature, morality and religion, Eagleton investigates ethical theories from Aristotle to Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek, weighing the merits and deficiencies of each theory, and measuring them all against the 'richer' ethical resources of socialism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition. In a remarkably original move, he assigns each of the theories he examines to one or other of Jacques Lacan's three psychoanalytical categories of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real, and shows how this can illuminate the strengths and weaknesses of an ethics of personal sympathy, an impersonal morality of obligation, and a morality based on death and transformation.