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Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination

Living Wrong Life Rightly

Ben Ware (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

186 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-55502-1 (ISBN)

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In this groundbreaking new study, Ben Ware carries out a bold reassessment of the relationship between modernism and ethics, arguing that modernist literature and philosophy offer more than simply a snapshot of the moral conflicts of the past: they provide a crucial point of reference for today’s emancipatory struggles. Modernism in this assessment is characterized not only by a concern with language and aesthetic creativity, but also by a preoccupation with the question of how to live. Investigating ethical ideas in Wittgenstein, Beckett, Kierkegaard, Kant, Cavell, Marx, Henry James and Lacan, Ware demonstrates how these thinkers can bring us to a new understanding of a constellation of issues which contemporary radical thought must re-visit: utopia, repetition, perfectionism, subtraction, negativity, critique, absence, duty, revolution and political love. The result is a timely and provocative intervention, which re-draws the boundaries for future debates on the ethics and politics of modernism.

Ben Ware is author of Dialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the ‘Tractatus’ and Modernism (2015). He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London and at Kingston University, UK.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Right in Front of Our Eyes: Aspect-Perception, Ethics and the Utopian Imagination in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.- Chapter 3. Johannes de Silentio and the Art of Subtraction: From Voice to Love in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling.- Chapter 4. Tragic-Dialectical-Perfectionism: On Beckett’s Endgame.- Chapter 5. Living Wrong Life Rightly: Kant avec Marx.- Chapter 6. Absence, Perversion and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis Revisited: A Reading of Henry James’s ‘The Beast in the Jungle’.- Bibliography.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Language, Discourse, Society
Reihe/Serie	Language, Discourse, Society
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 186 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	Beckett • contemporary critical theory • Endgame • Kierkegaard • Marxism • Philosophical investigations • Wittgenstein
ISBN-10	1-137-55502-5 / 1137555025
ISBN-13	978-1-137-55502-1 / 9781137555021
Zustand	Neuware