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Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics (Paperback)
Short Description for Trouble with StrangersTrouble 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.
Full description- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
- Published: 12 September 2008
- Format: Paperback 360 pages
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- Categories: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9781405185721 ISBN 10: 1405185724
- Sales rank: 218,283
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Full description for Trouble with Strangers
In this major new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the world's greatest cultural theorists, writes with wit, eloquence and clarity on the question of ethics. Providing rare insights into tragedy, politics, literature, morality and religion, Eagleton examines key ethical theories through the framework of Jacques Lacan's categories of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real, measuring them against the 'richer' ethical resources of socialism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition.* a major new book from Terry Eagleton, one of the world's greatest cultural theorists* investigates ethical theories from Aristotle to Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek* engages with the whole modern European tradition of thought about ethics* brings together personal and political ethics and makes a passionate case for political love
