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Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55503-8

ISBN: 978-1-137-55502-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 16, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction

Ware, Ben

Pages: 1 –6

[This book has one simple aim: to explore the possibility of living a right life in a wrong world and to assess what light modernist philosophy and literature can shed upon this endeavour. The book does not attempt to provide a unifying ‘theory’ of modernist ethics; nor does it seek to furnish an...
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Chapter 2Right in Front of Our Eyes: Aspect-Perception, Ethics and the Utopian Imagination in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

Ware, Ben

Pages: 7 –35

[This chapter explores Wittgenstein’s concern with seeing and vision by focusing specifically upon four questions. First, how do we account for the emphasis which Wittgenstein places upon vision (especially in the later writings), and what does this reveal about his relation to some of the...
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Chapter 3Johannes de Silentio and the Art of Subtraction: From Voice to Love in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

Ware, Ben

Pages: 37 –66

[This chapter claims that only a dialectical approach allows us to grasp the true meaning of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling. First, one accepts the ‘obvious’ intent of the text: to drive up the price of faith. Second, by way of ‘correction’, one then interrogates the complex mode of authorship....
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Chapter 4Tragic-Dialectical-Perfectionism: On Beckett’s Endgame

Ware, Ben

Pages: 67 –90

[This chapter examines Stanley Cavell’s suggestion – put forward in his Carus Lectures of 1988 – that Samuel Beckett’s Endgame can be read as a work which embodies and develops the idea of Emersonian moral perfectionism. While this suggestion is never fully substantiated by Cavell himself, it is,...
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Chapter 5Living Wrong Life Rightly: Kant avec Marx

Ware, Ben

Pages: 91 –121

[In this chapter, I sketch one possible answer to the question of how one might lead a right life in a wrong world; an answer which begins with the injunction Back to Kant. Such a move requires taking a new look at Kant’s notion of the good which, in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals,...
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Chapter 6Absence, Perversion and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis Revisited: A Reading of Henry James’s ‘The Beast in the Jungle’

Ware, Ben

Pages: 123 –160

[In this chapter, I suggest a way of reading Henry James’s ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ which treats as central to its ethical and political import the absence which resides at its centre. This void or hole is, I will argue, not only the cause of the narrative and that which confers meaning and...

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