Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination

Living Wrong Life Rightly

By:

Ben Ware

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Language, Discourse, Society

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

May 3rd, 2019

Author

Ben Ware

Series

Language, Discourse, Society

Pages

186

Edition

1st ed. 2017

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 186 p. 1 illus.

ISBN-13

9781349717101

Product ID

29093678

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