Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination

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.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Right in Front of Our Eyes: Aspect-Perception, Ethics and the Utopian Imagination in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.- Chapter 3. Johannes de Silentio and the Art of Subtraction: From Voice to Love in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling.- Chapter 4. Tragic-Dialectical-Perfectionism: On Beckett’s Endgame.- Chapter 5. Living Wrong Life Rightly: Kant avec Marx.- Chapter 6. Absence, Perversion and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis Revisited: A Reading of Henry James’s ‘The Beast in the Jungle’.- Bibliography.- Index.