Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination
Subtitle: Living Wrong Life Rightly
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 15, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781137555021
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination: Living Wrong Life Rightly (Language, Discourse, Society)