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Terry Eagleton - Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics - 9781405185721 - V9781405185721
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Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics

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Description for Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics Paperback. Trouble With Strangers represents a groundbreaking intervention in ethics by one of the world's most important theoreticians. It is written with Terry Eagleton's usual wit, panache, and uncanny ability to summarize and criticize otherwise complex philosophical and theoretical conversations. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
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 Žižek

‘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 ... Read more

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 Žižek, 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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405185721
SKU
V9781405185721
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Terry Eagleton
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.

Reviews for Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics
"In his inimitable way, Eagleton is helping to develop this intriguing scene, and further framings of his thought are keenly anticipated.." (New Left Review, July - August, 2010) “Readers who know the writers being discussed will enjoy the book.” (Choice, April 2009) "Eagleton has laboured diligently in tracing the wellsprings of ethics across literature, philosophy, ... Read more

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