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Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination Introduction

Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination : Introduction [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 exhaustive account of modernism’s various ‘ethical turns’ – one might pity anyone who set out to accomplish either of these tasks. Instead the work is best understood as an album of sketches – to use a description from the writings of the later Wittgenstein – which seek to map out a number of hitherto unexamined interactions between modernism, ethics and politics. In each chapter, the attempt is made to demonstrate how a particular philosophical or literary text can, once it has been blasted out of its traditional genre, bring us to a new understanding of an issue (or constellation of issues) which contemporary radical thought must revisit: utopia, repetition, tragedy, critique, absence, negativity, political love.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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978-1-137-55502-1
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1 –6
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10.1057/978-1-137-55503-8_1
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[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 exhaustive account of modernism’s various ‘ethical turns’ – one might pity anyone who set out to accomplish either of these tasks. Instead the work is best understood as an album of sketches – to use a description from the writings of the later Wittgenstein – which seek to map out a number of hitherto unexamined interactions between modernism, ethics and politics. In each chapter, the attempt is made to demonstrate how a particular philosophical or literary text can, once it has been blasted out of its traditional genre, bring us to a new understanding of an issue (or constellation of issues) which contemporary radical thought must revisit: utopia, repetition, tragedy, critique, absence, negativity, political love.]

Published: Dec 16, 2016

Keywords: Moral Philosophy; Family Resemblance; Literary Text; Exhaustive Account; Modernist Ethic

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