{"product_id":"trouble-with-strangers-isbn-9781405185721","title":"Trouble with Strangers","description":"\u003cb\u003eTROUBLE WITH STRANGERS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘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.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘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.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter R. Sedgwick,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Cardiff University \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Critchley,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e The New School for Social Research \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.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.  \u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e vi  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I THE INSISTENCE OF THE IMAGINARY 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e: The Mirror Stage 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Sentiment and Sensibility 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Francis Hutcheson and David Hume 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Edmund Burke and Adam Smith 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SYMBOLIC 83\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e: The Symbolic Order 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Spinoza and the Death of Desire 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Kant and the Moral Law 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Law and Desire in \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III THE REIGN OF THE REAL 139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e: Pure Desire 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Fictions of the Real 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Levinas, Derrida and Badiou 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Banality of Goodness 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 317\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e 327\u003c\/p\u003e  \"In his inimitable way, Eagleton is helping to develop this intriguing scene, and further framings of his thought are keenly anticipated..\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e, July - August, 2010)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  “Readers who know the writers being discussed will enjoy the book.” (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2009)  \u003cp\u003e\"Eagleton has laboured diligently in tracing the wellsprings of ethics across literature, philosophy, morality and religion. T\u003ci\u003erouble With Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is an engrossing book, peppered with remarkable insights into theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis.\" (\u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, March 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Eagleton is absolutely correct to ask why do we have ‘trouble with strangers?’ It is to ask, after all, how we might be able to recreate solidarity. And it is in pursuit of this answer that he examines the attempts of moral philosophers to give altruism a firm footing.\" (\u003ci\u003eCulture Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, March 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This difficult, highly abstract, yet extremely closely reasoned study touches on so many topics and ideas that the reader may come away from it wondering whether Eagleton has made a convincing argument for his main thesis which is that most ethical theories can be assigned to one of Jacques Lacans three psychoanalytical categories of the imaginary the symbolic and the Real or in some combination of the three.” (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, December 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Confronted now with Eagleton's eighth book in 11 years … One finds his trademark qualities in abundance: impishness, prodigious breadth of reading, a poacher's disregard of boundaries and of 'no trespassing' notices, sublime self-confidence, and an opening up of the heart to old allegiances as sudden as a blow to the chest.\" (\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, December 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Poem\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eThe English Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eSweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e(2000), \u003ci\u003eScholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and \u003ci\u003eThe Illusions of Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), all published by Wiley-Blackwell.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.' \u003cb\u003e–Slavoj ??i??ek\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003ePeter R. Sedgwick,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eCardiff University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eSimon Critchley,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New School for Social Research\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTROUBLE WITH STRANGERS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Study of Ethics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 ??i??ek, 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.\t   \"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"… An engagement with the whole modern European tradition of thought about ethics, drawing on both philosophical and literary texts, and paying close attention to shifting cultural currents and historical contexts. The insights are often sharp, and the criticisms both pointed and – usually – laced with humour\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003ePeter Dews\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Essex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003ePeter R. Sedgwick\u003c\/b\u003e, Cardiff University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eSimon Critchley\u003c\/b\u003e, The New School for Social Research\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990415098085,"sku":"NP9781405185721","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405185721.jpg?v=1761787735","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/trouble-with-strangers-isbn-9781405185721","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}