{"product_id":"trouble-with-strangers-9781405185738","title":"Trouble with Strangers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrouble 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e vi  \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","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407917490519,"sku":"9781405185738","price":76.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405185738.jpg?v=1730500952","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/trouble-with-strangers-9781405185738","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}