Overview
- First book-length study to explore the relationship between ethics, literary and philosophical modernism and issues in contemporary critical theory
- Provides new and original readings of key texts in modernist literature and philosophy, including Beckett’s Endgame and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
- Communicates complex theoretical and philosophical ideas in a clear, accessible and jargon-free style, making the work accessible both to advanced students and professional scholars
Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)
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“Ware’s sketches of an endangered ethical landscape are urgent and timely reminders of the importance of ethical reasoning as much for politics as for personal conduct but above all for the difficult terrain that lies between them.” (Howard Caygill, Kingston University London, UK)
“Ethics is a much abused and over-used word at the moment. Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination restores to ethics its political dimension as a challenge to the damaged lives we live under capitalism. In a series of admirably elegant readings, ranging across literature and philosophy, from Kierkegaard to Marx, Henry James to Samuel Beckett, Ben Ware reveals the ethical moment of negativity: the possibility of thinking the collective dimension of life. Resisting the narcissism of our times, this book powerfully restates the necessity of critique as a means to repair our damaged language and so to start to repair our damaged world.” (Benjamin Noys, Professor of Critical Theory at theUniversity of Chichester)
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Book Title: Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination
Book Subtitle: Living Wrong Life Rightly
Authors: Ben Ware
Series Title: Language, Discourse, Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55503-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55502-1Published: 20 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71710-1Published: 03 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55503-8Published: 09 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-0188
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 186
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Theory