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Modernism, ethics and the political imagination : living wrong life rightly

Title: Modernism, ethics and the political imagination : living wrong life rightly / Ben Ware.
Author: Ware, Ben (Research Fellow)
Publication: London, United Kingdom : Palgrave MacMillan 2017.

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xi, 186 pages; 22 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Language, Discourse, Society

Uniform Title

Language, discourse, society.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-176) and index.

Call Number

JFD 17-3250

ISBN

9781137555021
1137555025

LCCN

2016958528

OCLC

962330737

Author

Ware, Ben (Research Fellow), author.

Title

Modernism, ethics and the political imagination : living wrong life rightly / Ben Ware.

Publisher

London, United Kingdom : Palgrave MacMillan 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Language, Discourse, Society

Language, discourse, society.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-176) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-3250

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