Thank goodness he doesn't intend to deal *in depth* with Aristotle, Spinoza,
Hume,
Hutcheson, Adam Smith, Burke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,
Lacan, Levinas, Derrida and Badiou. Would be like one of Fidel Castro's
longer speeches.
Dominic pointed out a paper of Badiou's on love a while back: maybe, Dom,
you could refresh the pointer?
P
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> Subject: Melbourne Univ: Dean's Lecture: Professor Terry Eagleton
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> The School of Culture and Communication invites you to a public lecture to
> be given by Professor Terry Eagleton on Friday 7 December, 6.30-7.30pm.
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> GM15, Level 1, Law Building
> Pelham Street, The University of Melbourne
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> Terry Eagletonšs lecture is presented as part of the Deanšs Lecture
Series.
>
> 8.00pm Book launch by Andrew McGowan (Trinity College):
>
> Terry Eagleton Presents Jesus Christ: The Gospels (Verso, Dec. 2007)
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> Trouble with Strangers:
> Ethics, Politics and Psychoanalysis
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> The argument of the lecture turns upon what I believe is an original
> insight: that almost every ethical theory from Aristotle to Zizek can be
> regarded as exemplifying one or other of Jacques Lacanšs psychoanalytical
> categories of the Imaginary, Symbolic and Real, or seen as some complex
> combination of the three.
> In a lecture which will touch briefly upon Aristotle, Spinoza, Hume,
> Hutcheson, Adam Smith, Burke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,
> Lacan, Levinas, Derrida and Badiou, I shall seek to demonstrate this
thesis
> while drawing out some of its political implications.
> Each of the forms of ethical theory in question will be examined for its
> merits and deficiencies, and each will be critically compared with the
> ethics of socialism and Judaeo-Christianity, as well as with so-called
> virtue ethics.
> It will be argued that the paradigmatic case of the ethical is our
treatment
> of strangers (or even enemies), and some attention (involving Kant, Freud
> and the New Testament) will be given to the notion of love of strangers,
> along with the vital yet relatively unexamined concept of political love.
>
> Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Chair of English Literature at the
> University of Manchester.
> He is the author of some 35 full-length books,ranging from works of
literary
> criticism and cultural theory to original plays and a memoir, and has
edited
> and contributed introductions and essays to numerous other books.
> He is a regular reviewer and commentator in journals such as The London
> Review of Books and The TLS, and an internationally renowned lecturer on
> philosophical, literary, political and ethical issues.
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> http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/public-lectures.html
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> This lecture is free of charge and open to all staff, students and members
> of the public.
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