Terry Eagleton
Articles by Terry Eagleton
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Books
The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now
- 22 June 2011
- 93 comments
Misunderstanding what it means to be secular.
Books
Hitch-22: a Memoir
- 31 May 2010
- 19 comments
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
- 5 comments
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.
Culture
Waking the dead
- 12 November 2009
- 3 comments
For Walter Benjamin, history was more than a series of dispassionate facts. He showed how the struggle for the past shapes our future
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
- 1 comment
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
