Terry Eagleton

Trouble with Strangers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Trouble With Strangers represents a groundbreakingintervention in ethics by one of the world s most importanttheoreticians. It is written with Terry Eagleton s usual wit,panache, and uncanny ability to summarize and criticize otherwisecomplex philosophical and theoretical conversations.

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Der Autor bietet seltene Einblicke in Tragödie, Politik, Literatur, Moral und Religion unter dem Eindruck von Jacques Lacans Betrachtungsfeldern des Imaginären, des Symbolischen und des Wirklichen und stellt diese den ethischen Prinzipien des Sozialismus und der jüdisch-christlichen Tradition gegenüber.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781405185721
• ISBN-10: 1405185724
• Artikelnr.: 23808770

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Part 1: The Insistence of the Imaginary. Introduction: The Mirror
Stage. 1: Sentiment and Sensibility. 2: Francis Hutcheson and David Hume.
3: Edmund Burke and Adam Smith. Part 2: The Sovereignty of the Symbolic.
Introduction: The Symbolic Order. 4: Spinoza and the Death of Desire. 5:
Kant and the Moral Law. 6: Law and Desire in Measure for Measure. Part 3:
The Reign of the Real. Introduction: Pure Desire. 7: Schopenhauer,
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. 8: Fictions of the Real. 9: Levinas, Derrida and
Badiou. 10: The Banality of Goodness. Conclusion. Index