Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton
Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton FBA is a prominent British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth22 February 1943
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truth-is ideology humans
The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.
literary-theory method term
Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
hands population pursuit
We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.
scratches savages
Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.
jesus like-love world
To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.
moving writing past
If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
literary-theory may throwing-up
If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
song evil may
Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.
educational men way
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.
philosophy academic-life training
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.
culture frontiers
The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
kind affair being-human
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
evil reason rhyme
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
christian party practice
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.