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Hace 2 días · The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of NormsOlivier Roy, translated by Cynthia Schoch and Trista SelousHurst, £20. IN 1992 when the New Right’s neoliberal revolution was still in full flood, the Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton wrote an essay in which, with great prescience, he foretold a crisis of contemporary culture.
Hace 14 horas · Terry Eagleton on Why Marx was Right – Yalebooks (03:30): Wat Marx als eerste geïdentificeerd heeft, is het historische object dat we het ‘kapitalisme’ noemen. Hij heeft de wetten, het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van het kapitalistisch productieproces beschreven, én ook de contradicties en de uiteindelijke val ervan voorspeld:
Hace 5 días · Recently it has taken the disconcerting form of setting out one’s pedigree for public inspection. Thus Terry Eagleton, in Heathcliffe and the Great Hunger, tells us that all four of his grandparents were Irish immigrants and that his mother was born into "the Irish community of the tiny Lancashire town of Bacup."
Hace 2 días · The extremer versions of this asserted that experience itself is impossible without language. Literature professor Terry Eagleton is clearly a fan of this perspective. Husserl speaks of a purely private or internal sphere of experience; but such a sphere is in fact a fiction, since all experience involves language and language is ineradicably ...
24 de may. de 2024 · As Terry Eagleton quips, ‘It is a curious irony that for much traditional tragic theory, wretchedness and despondency threaten to subvert tragedy rather than enhance it’. Footnote 79 For this reason, both Murdoch and her friend Steiner argue that ‘Auschwitz is not a tragedy’.
Hace 3 días · 14 Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction (New York: Verso, 2007), 5. About the Author. Lisa Nelson is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.
There are multiple 'theories' of literature. If you're struggling with the approach of that particular book you could try others. I like Terry Eagleton's book on Literary Theory as an introduction. But you can't go wrong with Harold Bloom if you're interested in the pleasure of literature. Much of his stuff is available on audiobook too.
