Terry Eagleton

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Ideas

The prophets of prosperity

10 July 2006

Suicide of the West
Richard Koch and Chris Smith Continuum, 224pp, £14.99
ISBN 0826490239
Christianity, science, individualism, economic growth: is it really these that have ensured the "success" of our culture? Terry Eagleton on the nasty myth of western progress

Books

The truth speakers

03 April 2006

Absent Minds: intellectuals in Britain
Stefan Collini Oxford University Press, 526pp, £25
ISBN 0199291055

The British do themselves down when they describe themselves as anti-intellectual. A nation that produced Coleridge, Mill, Keynes and Orwell can hardly be said to despise ideas

Books

Eastern block. Edward Said got many things wrong, but his central argument was basically right. The west's denigration of the east has always gone with imperialist incursions into its terrain. By Terry Eagleton

13 February 2006
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For Lust of Knowing: the orientalists and their enemies
Robert Irwin Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 410pp, £25
ISBN 0713994150

Books

Rough, rugged and right-on

07 November 2005

Crusoe's Secret: the aesthetics of dissent
Tom Paulin Faber & Faber, 360pp, £20

ISBN 0571221157

Diary - Terry Eagleton

29 August 2005

At Chicago, airport security staff solemnly ran their electric wand over my daughter's nappy. You can't fight terrorism without getting your hands dirty

Books

The popular touch. Is it possible to distinguish "high" culture from "low" culture? Is one better than the other? Terry Eagleton on a generous polemic that fails to hit all its targets

20 June 2005

What Good Are the Arts?
John Carey Faber & Faber, 304pp, £12.99
ISBN 0571226027

Books

The empire writes back. Should the literary realm be seen as its own republic, complete with frontiers, legislators and rivalries? Yes, according to a bold new theory. Terry Eagleton applauds a milestone in the history of modern thought

11 April 2005

The World Republic of Letters
Pascale Casanova Harvard University Press, 440pp, £22.95
ISBN 067401345X

Books

How to be popular. A series of bluffers' guides reveals unexpected connections between the Marquis de Sade, Darwin and Hitler. Terry Eagleton on the pros and cons of a much-mocked format

21 February 2005

How to Read Darwin
Mark Ridley, Granta Books
ISBN 1862077282

Freud by Josh Cohen
l Hitler by Neil Gregor
Nietzsche by Keith Ansell Pearson
l Sade by John Phillips
Wittgenstein by Ray Monk
Granta Books, £6.99 each

Diary - Terry Eagleton

31 January 2005

The dispiriting news is that we are not going to be wiped out by terrorists, but by bird flu. This is a far less satisfactory prospect. Being done in by birds is just embarrassing

Society