Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics

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In this major new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the worlds greatest cultural theorists, writes with wit, eloquence and clarity on the question of ethics. Providing rare insights into tragedy, politics, literature, morality and religion, Eagleton examines key ethical theories through the framework of Jacques Lacans categories of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real, measuring them against the richer ethical resources of socialism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition.a major new book from Terry Eagleton, one of the worlds greatest cultural theoristsinvestigates ethical theories from Aristotle to Alain Badiou and Slavoj }i~ekengages with the whole modern European tradition of thought about ethicsbrings together personal and political ethics and makes a passionate case for political love

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Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include How to Read a Poem (2006), The English Novel (2004), Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2003), The Idea of Culture (2000), Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1999), and The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), all published by Wiley-Blackwell.