Includes index.
The insistence of the imaginary
Introduction: The mirror stage
Sentiment and sensibility
Francis Hutcheson and David Hume
Edmund Burke and Adam Smith
The sovereignty of the symbolic
Introduction: The symbolic order
Spinoza and the death of desire
Kant and the moral law
Law and desire in measure for measure
The reign of the real
Introduction: Pure desire
Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
Fictions of the real
Levinas, Derrida and Badiou
The banality of goodness.
Trouble with strangers : a study of ethics by Terry Eagleton. ISBN 9781405185721. Published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.