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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 }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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vi PART I THE INSISTENCE OF THE IMAGINARY 1 Introduction : The Mirror Stage 1 1 Sentiment and Sensibility 12 2 Francis Hutcheson and David Hume 29 3 Edmund Burke and Adam Smith 62 PART II THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SYMBOLIC 83 Introduction : The Symbolic Order 83 4 Spinoza and the Death of Desire 91 5 Kant and the Moral Law 101 6 Law and Desire in Measure for Measure 130 PART III THE REIGN OF THE REAL 139 Introduction : Pure Desire 139 7 Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche 154 8 Fictions of the Real 180 9 Levinas, Derrida and Badiou 223 10 The Banality of Goodness 273 Conclusion 317 Index 327 ...
