Terry Eagleton

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February 22, 1943 in Salford, The United Kingdom

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British literary critic

He is a British literary theorist widely regarded as Britain's most influential living literary critic.

Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and as a Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Formerly Eagleton was Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford (1992-2001) and John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester until 2008. In the Fall 2009 semester, Dr Eagleton will return to The University of Notre Dame as a Distinguished Visitor in the Department of English.

He has written more than forty books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983); The Ide...more

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Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton - review

A banal and impudent argument for the uses of religion

The novels of Graham Greene are full of reluctant Christians, men and women who would like to be rid of God but find themselves stuck with him like some lethal addiction. There are, however, reluctant atheists as well, people who long to dunk themselves in the baptismal font but can't quite bring themselves to believe. George Steiner and Rog...

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Books by Terry Eagleton

Average rating: 3.81 · 3,766 ratings · 467 reviews · 53 distinct works

	Literary Theory: An Introduction 3.86 avg rating — 1,115 ratings — published 1983 — 23 editions	My rating:
	After Theory 3.82 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate 3.79 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Why Marx Was Right 3.75 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Meaning of Life 3.55 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Marxism And Literary Criticism 3.75 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Ideology: An Introduction 4.02 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	My rating:
	How to Read a Poem 3.69 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Ideology of the Aesthetic 4.00 avg rating — 82 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	On Evil 3.45 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Terry Eagleton

“A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”
― Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction

tags: ideology , politics , socialism

20 people liked it

“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

tags: apathy , capitalism , inevitability , inspirational , marxism , resistance , socialism

10 people liked it

“If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.”
― Terry Eagleton, The Meaning of Life

tags: certainty , dogmatism , life

7 people liked it

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