Terry Eagleton
Articles by Terry Eagleton
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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
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
