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Religion
The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now
22 June 2011

Misunderstanding what it means to be secular.

Books
Hitch-22: a Memoir
31 May 2010

Christopher Hitchens became dazzled by his “friendships” with the rich and powerful and turned into an apologist for war on Iraq. Terry Eagleton reads his new memoir –– and finds a man in conflict with every one of his own instincts.

Ideas
Of men and monsters
01 April 2010

Acknowledging that wickedness exists doesn’t mean you have to believe in the existence of Satan. And you don’t have to be religious to think that there is such a thing as sin – just think of Jamie Bulger, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.

Ideas
Waking the dead
12 November 2009

For Walter Benjamin, history was more than a series of dispassionate facts. He showed how the struggle for the past shapes our future

Books
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

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

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