Terry Eagleton

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in Salford, The United Kingdom

February 22, 1943

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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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Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review

Terry Eagleton enjoys a superb biography of anoriginal thinker

In May 1992, the dons of Cambridge University filed into their parliament to vote on whether to award an honorary degree to the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, founder of so-called deconstruction. Despite a deftly managed smear campaign by the opposition, Derrida's supporters carried the day. It would be interesting to know how m...

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Terry Eagleton's Books

Average rating: 3.86 · 6,018 ratings · 624 reviews · 69 distinct works · Similar authors

	Literary Theory: An Introduction 3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,768 ratings — published 1983 — 25 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Marx Was Right 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Theory 3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Meaning of Life 3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marxism and Literary Criticism 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 1976 — 19 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ideology: An Introduction 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Read a Poem 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Evil 3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ideology of the Aesthetic 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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

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“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

26 people liked it

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future. We will not change this simply by increasing state funding of the humanities as opposed to slashing it to nothing. We will change it by insisting that a critical reflection on human values and principles should be central to everything that goes on in universities, not just to the study of Rembrandt or Rimbaud.”
― Terry Eagleton

tags: 2010, 2010-uk-student-protests, academia, arthur-rimbaud, humanities, imagination, justice, margaret-thatcher, public-university, radical-politics, radicalism, reactionary-politics, rembrandt, tradition, tuition-fees-uk, university

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