Eagleton Trouble with Strangers

A Study of Ethics
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5953-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, E-Book

In this major new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the world'sgreatest cultural theorists, writes with wit, eloquence and clarityon the question of ethics. Providing rare insights into tragedy,politics, literature, morality and religion, Eagleton examines keyethical theories through the framework of Jacques Lacan'scategories of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real, measuringthem against the 'richer' ethical resources ofsocialism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition.
* a major new book from Terry Eagleton, one of the world'sgreatest cultural theorists
* investigates ethical theories from Aristotle to Alain Badiouand Slavoj Zizek
* engages with the whole modern European tradition of thoughtabout ethics
* brings together personal and political ethics and makes apassionate case for political love

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eagleton, Terry

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vi
PART I THE INSISTENCE OF THE IMAGINARY 1
Introduction: The Mirror Stage 1
1 Sentiment and Sensibility 12
2 Francis Hutcheson and David Hume 29
3 Edmund Burke and Adam Smith 62
PART II THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SYMBOLIC 83
Introduction: The Symbolic Order 83
4 Spinoza and the Death of Desire 91
5 Kant and the Moral Law 101
6 Law and Desire in Measure for Measure 130
PART III THE REIGN OF THE REAL 139
Introduction: Pure Desire 139
7 Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche 154
8 Fictions of the Real 180
9 Levinas, Derrida and Badiou 223
10 The Banality of Goodness 273
Conclusion 317
Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include How to Read a Poem (2006), The English Novel (2004), Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2003), The Idea of Culture (2000), Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1999), and The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), all published by Wiley-Blackwell.