Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Terry Eagleton
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'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 Ziek
'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 Ziek, 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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- Title Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics
- Author Terry Eagleton
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
- Date 2008
- ISBN 9781405185738 / 1405185732
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ethics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008011376
- Dewey Decimal Code 170
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Citations
- Choice, 04/01/2009, Page 0
- Library Journal, 12/15/2008, Page 132
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