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Terry Eagleton. Terence Francis Eagleton FBA [4] (born 22 February 1943) is an English philosopher, literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. [5][6][7][8] He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. Eagleton has published over forty books, but remains best known for Literary Theory: An ...
At the start of his career Eagleton was in with the Marxist swim, trying to map out the parameters for Marxist criticism, hoping to establish literary theory on a supposedly ‘scientific’ basis. However, as the Marxist tide receded with unparalleled rapidity, within a few years he was left in an exposed, rather lonely, position.
Theology and Marxism in Eagleton and Zizek: A Conspiracy of Hope. Ola Sigurdson Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. 243 pp. $95 cloth. In trying to teach the "religious turn" in continental philosophy and, more specifically, contemporary Marxist thought, one could do a lot worse than to say simply and directly that embedded both in Marxism and religion
Eagleton’s specifically Marxist take on literary theory is evident throughout this book and clearly informs his continuing work on ideology, most famously The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), and his critique of the postmodern turn in cultural theory, witness The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), and indeed his more recent work - see Why Marx Was Right (2011).
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Terry Eagleton has written around fifty books, including, most famously, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), and around eighty LRB pieces. His subjects have included critics (Erich Auerbach, Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, I.A. Richards, Stanley Fish, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion and many novels.
Author Terry Eagleton in 2013. Terry Eagleton is an academic in the fields of literary theory, Marxism and Catholicism. [1] He turned to leftism while an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in the 1960s, finding himself at the intersection of the New Left and Catholic progressivism in the Second Vatican Council reforms. [2]
political hook. Eagleton is, in short, quite willing to confess everyone's sins but his own. Moreover, by omitting an explicit examination of Marxist literary theory, Eagleton can have it both ways theoretically and politically. He never engages the line of reasoning which would see Marxism, for all its practice of
