A Study of Ethics
Terry Eagleton
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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 Žižek 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
contents
Preface
PART I 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 II 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 III 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