Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics

✍ Scribed by Terry Eagleton(auth.)

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this major new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the world’s greatest cultural theorists, writes with wit, eloquence and clarity on the question of ethics. Providing rare insights into tragedy, politics, literature, morality and religion, Eagleton examines key ethical theories through the framework of Jacques Lacan’s categories of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real, measuring them against the ‘richer’ ethical resources of socialism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition.

• a major new book from Terry Eagleton, one of the world’s greatest cultural theorists
• investigates ethical theories from Aristotle to Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek
• engages with the whole modern European tradition of thought about ethics
• brings together personal and political ethics and makes a passionate case for political love

Content:
Chapter 1 Sentiment and Sensibility (pages 12–28):
Chapter 2 Francis Hutcheson and David Hume (pages 29–61):
Chapter 3 Edmund Burke and Adam Smith (pages 62–82):
Chapter 4 Spinoza and the Death of Desire (pages 91–100):
Chapter 5 Kant and the Moral Law (pages 101–129):
Chapter 6 Law and Desire in Measure for Measure (pages 130–138):
Chapter 7 Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (pages 154–179):
Chapter 8 Fictions of the Real (pages 180–222):
Chapter 9 Levinas, Derrida and Badiou (pages 223–272):
Chapter 10 The Banality of Goodness (pages 273–316):