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	Terry Eagleton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Terry Eagleton (born in Salford, England, on February 22, 1943) is a British literary critic and philosopher.
		Eagleton was the student of the Marxist literary critic Raymond Williams.
		Eagleton's thought remains firmly rooted in the Marxist tradition, and he is not averse to critiquing deconstruction and other fashionable modes of thought.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terry_Eagleton (515 words)

	Encyclopedia: Terry Eagleton
		Terry Eagleton (born in (Click link for more info and facts about Salford) Salford, England, on February 22, 1943) is a British (A critic of literature) literary critic and (A specialist in philosophy) philosopher.
		Eagleton was the student of the (An advocate of Marxism) Marxist literary critic (Click link for more info and facts about Raymond Williams) Raymond Williams.
		While Eagleton's neo-Marxist beliefs occasionally color his analysis, he is not afraid to critique (A philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning) deconstruction and other fashionable modes of thought.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Terry-Eagleton (1363 words)

	Terry Eagleton: Wittgenstein as Philosophical Modernist (and Postmodernist)
		Eagleton is not exactly a Wittgensteinian scholar; he is more a literary critic than a philosopher and his interests as an academic Marxist hardly qualify him as one who might approach Wittgenstein in sympathetic terms.
		Eagleton's purpose is, however, to make the comparison between a 'Nietzschean' Wittgenstein and Derrida, who leave "everything as it is" and a conception of 'language as carnival' that he attributes to Mikhail Bakhtin.
		Eagleton's overall intention is to demonstrate the superiority of mainstream Marxist asethetics that admits a notion of ideology, provides strategies of de-reification and de-fetishization, and explains the historical conditions of metaphysics.
	faculty.ed.uiuc.edu /burbules/syllabi/Materials/Eagleton.html (5086 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| The Guardian Profile: Terry Eagleton
		Eagleton will be 60 next year, which on the face of it seems an appropriate time for him to take stock of his life and career.
		Eagleton said he pushed hard for changes in the way English was taught at Oxford throughout the 1980s, "and then, like a lot of ruling-class institutions, when they opened the door you fell flat on your face.
		Eagleton is unsparing of the inadequacies of these various forms of theory and the book ends with another call for a more practical political criticism.
	education.guardian.co.uk /academicexperts/story/0,1392,643458,00.html (4268 words)

	Dougal McNeill: "Sounding the Future: Marxism and the Plays of Terry Eagleton"
		Eagleton's dramas do not "congeal the spectator"; they are not based on "dramaturgies of abdication"2 but are rather part of an oeuvre which is concerned to show its problematics and inadequacies as part of an active relationship and dialogue with its audience.
		Furthermore, Eagleton is specific in his claim that his hope is to use Ireland and cultural theory as foils to develop one another, interrogating cultural theory with the experiences of Irish history and developing our understanding of Ireland through the insights of recent critical theory.
		Eagleton overwhelms the spectator with a hypnotic array of decontextualised modern language and imagery, and by the time McClintock announces the "distress is over" (222) we have neither the energy nor the inclination to either care or be outraged.
	eserver.org /clogic/2005/mcneill.html (11273 words)

	spiked-culture \| Article \| <i>After Theory</i>...what?
		Eagleton is at his strongest when puncturing the pretensions of cultural theory, perhaps because he has spent so much of his career having to wade through this stuff.
		Eagleton acknowledged the shortcomings of these 'new social movements', but responded that we have to make do with 'local and contingent solidarities', because following the demise of older political struggles, 'an organic solidarity has died and a new one has yet to be born'.
		Eagleton's attitude is more understandable, however, when you consider that one of the few distinguishing characteristics of the new anti-capitalism is an aversion to change and progress.
	www.spiked-online.com /articles/00000006DF89.htm (1392 words)

	Democracy and Cultural Values Lecture Series
		Terry Eagleton, Professor of Professor of Cultural Theory at The University of Manchester, launched the University's Cultural Theory Institute (CTI) lecture series on 31 May at 5pm in Crawford House at the University.
		Eagleton, who is the first and only Professor of Cultural Theory at The University of Manchester, is actively engaged in the project of rethinking the politics of culture in the contemporary world.
		Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester.
	www.cti.man.ac.uk /Eagleton.shtml (273 words)

	Roland Boer: "Terry Eagleton and the Vicissitudes of Christology"
		Eagleton cannot emphasize enough the sheer dereliction and simultaneously redemptive necessity of such a scapegoat, playing on the ambiguity of the "sacred," that which is both reviled and holy, untouchable yet revered.
		Eagleton would have been better off writing that his historical Jesus is but one representation among a host of others, one that is distinctly useful for his own argument, but a representation nonetheless.
		Eagleton's christocentism is guilty here, for the ease of the connection between Abraham and Christ may work in terms of tragedy, of the absolute dereliction of both before an inscrutable God.
	eserver.org /clogic/2005/boer.html (7952 words)

	Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script - Terry Eagleton
		Terry Eagleton has tackled Wittgenstein before, most notably in his novel, Saints and Sinners, and he is knowledgeable about both the man and his philosophy.
		Eagleton focusses on a specific time (the mid-1930s) and builds the story around the Wittgenstein of that time, his past (and his future) implicit in the portrayal.
		Eagleton also has some cinematic sense, with a few touches that would have worked well on the screen -- so, for example, when the camera focusses on an elderly don while Wittgenstein is explaining some of his ideas.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/wittgenl/tescript.htm (564 words)

	The contradictions of Terry Eagleton by Roger Kimball
		But for Professor Eagleton, “the call for an aesthetics in eighteenth-century Germany is among other things a response to the problem of political absolutism.” His discussion of Baumgarten’s aesthetics transforms a philosophical innovation into a dramatic example of class warfare with reason cast as the tyrant and aesthetics as a kind of proletarian lackey.
		To all this Professor Eagleton might reply that, first, he was not attempting to present a standard history of aesthetics and, second, that his real interest is in the way the aesthetic embodies the contradictions of the middle class under capitalism.
		Professor Eagleton holds that the aesthetic is “contradictory” because aesthetic experience gestures toward a freedom usually denied to man while at the same time it embodies the ideological imperatives of the ruling class.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/09/sep90/eagleton.htm (3190 words)

	Eagleton, Literary Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eagleton’s Literary Theory has been treated as an introduction more or less objectively written for the purpose of “introducing” literary theory and “educating” students who aim to study literature in the academic world.
		In some respects, he argues, structuralism moves from the social to the linguistic on the one hand, which can be seen as “a hedonist withdrawal from history” or “irresponsible anarchism” (150), and on the other hand, moves toward the social, which he regards as a “positive” direction.
		The problem is that Eagleton presents Marxism as the “true” solution that dialectically survived historical crises, and not as one of the “imaginary solutions” to those historical crises as was the case of other theories.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/k/x/kxs334/academic/theory/eagleton_theory.html (1055 words)

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		Eagleton means it as a sign in Jameson's favor when he specifies that he derives "pleasure" from Jameson's work, but not "%jouissance%."^3^ Evidently, "pleasure" may be tolerable in contexts of righteous revolutionary effort, but "%jouissance%" would be going too far.
		Even Eagleton's darker notes, the moments of righteous anger, generally assume or imply (indeed, they aspire to create) a political situation in which righteous anger can readily find its proper effectivity--a situation, to put it another way, in which righteous political anger is felt as a pleasure in its own right.
		Eagleton seemingly bids defiance to all obligatory handwringing on that score: "Hitler as housepainter yesterday and Chancellor today is thus a sign of the comic, because that resistible rise foreshadows the unstable process whereby he may be dead in a bunker tomorrow" (_Walter Benjamin_ 161).
	www.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.593/helmling.593 (3745 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic - Terry Eagleton - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eagleton is properly critical of this and much of the book is an acute critique of those tragic theorists who seek to resolve the cruelty and horror of life into convenient didactic messages.
		Eagleton notes Franco Moretti's provocative comment that the modern world prefers unhappiness, because assuming the worst is likely to occur makes it easier for bourgeois society to forgive itself for not providing the best or the adequate.
		Eagleton is a former Catholic and often notes the similarity of Marxism and Christianity in the way they can combine deep pessimism with a sense of ultimate hope.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0631233601.html (882 words)

	Terry Eagleton, French Review 58.4 (1985)
		Furthermore, Eagleton argues "a particular case," namely the value-laden nature of all critical endeavor, but in particular the claims by the "liberal humanistic" tradition to a value-free critical stance.
		Although Eagleton then could have rendered his resume of deconstruction more useful with parenthetical references to the specific Derridean works summarized, the subsequent examination clearly, if rather densely, reveals the vast ideological difference between certain French deconstructionists and their Anglo-American confreres (specifically, the Yale School).
		Eagleton asserts a bit wishfully that counter to the American deconstructionists, "deconstruction is for Derrida an ultimately political practice" (p.
	www.langlab.wayne.edu /CStivale/Stivalerev/TEagletonFRev85.html (534 words)

	Literary Theory: An Introduction - Terry Eagleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I appreciated Eagleton's references to the major poets and writers (and yes, most of them were men) and the historical background he provided for every chapter.
		As for the "people of color," Eagleton would not write about an African-American theory since he is Irish/English and not overly concerned with the regional theories of the United States (just as the US critics wouldn't spend much time on Irish/English ethnic theory).
		Despite his claim that feminism is absent from the book, Eagleton discusses it at length through its interactions with post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, etc. Resultantly, Feminism is not relegated to one chapter as "a reader" from LA would like, but is everywhere in the book.
	www.cdswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-081661251X.html (672 words)

	Cat's Corner - James Joyce - Musings 4: Response to Terry Eagleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As Eagleton describes Wilde's self-creation, Ulysses can be seen as a "testifi[cation] in its very flamboyant artifice to the way in which any individualism of the present is bound to be a strained, fictive, parodic travesty of the real thing" (30).
		He was not doing it in a straightforward manner, however; in his "silence, exile, and cunning" he was subverting the terminology of the modern movement to question and problematize just such a generalization of particulars.
		Two further ironies that Eagleton points out, that other authors have mentioned, are due to the very nature of the double-edged sword that is colonialism.
	www.amherst.edu /~clboudre/jj_musings4_eagleton (775 words)

	Critical Theory: Terry Eagleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Terry Eagleton's review of Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad, was published by the London Review of Books on November 12, 1998, and is reprinted here in full.
		He earned his doctoral degree at Trinity at the age of 21, and has been a tutor of English at Wadham College, Oxford.
		Since the death of Williams in 1988, Eagleton has been regarded as the premier British Marxist literary critic.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/critical/eagleton.htm (202 words)

	The Truth About the Irish, St. Martin's Griffin, Terry Eagleton
		Covering all things Irish from Blarney to Yeats, renowned literary and cultural critic Terry Eagleton separates the myths from the reality with his priceless blend of sidesplitting humor, caustic commentary, and the honest lowdown on the beloved and bewildering country of Ireland.
		Terry Eagleton has long been known in academic circles as a maverick iconoclast willing to say what others were either unable to articulate and unwilling to say for fear of standing out.
		Eagleton is clearly a writer who has more than a passing familiarity with the country and the people.
	allentech.net /bookstore/item_0312264038.html (622 words)

	Significance of Theory - Terry Eagleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Terry Eagleton (born in Salford, England, on February 22, 1943) is a British philosopher.Eagleton gained a doctoral degree at the age of 21 from Trinity College, Cambridge.
		Most recently Eagleton has integrated cultural studies with more traditional literary theory."Literary Theory: An Introduction," probably his best-known work, traces history of the contemporary study of text, from the Romantics of the 19th century to the postmodernists of the last few decades.
		While Eagletons neo-Marxist beliefs occasionally color his analysis he is not afraid to critique deconstructivism and other fashionable modes of thought.Eagletons most recent work, "After Theory," cogently indictes current cultural and literary theory, and what Eagleton sees as the bastardization of both.
	www.isbnfinder.com /924212_terry-eagleton_0465017738aftertheoryusedbookssearchengine.html (583 words)

	Amazon.com: The Gatekeeper: A Memoir: Books: Terry Eagleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eagleton fiercely defends the radical left's ambitions and offers sharp critiques of globalization and the apparent triumph of capitalism.
		Eagleton's almost egregiously witty and amusing memoir is of the latter kind.
		The Ideology of the Aesthetic by Terry Eagleton
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312316135?v=glance (1385 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / The self-critic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		That is the opinion of one of Britain's best-known public intellectuals, the Marxist critic - and formidable theorist himself - Terry Eagleton.
		The proud grandson of immigrant laborers from Ireland, Eagleton was born into a devout Catholic family in Salford, a beaten-down industrial city outside Manchester.
		Eagleton, for his part, believes theory ''cannot afford simply to keep recounting the same narratives of class, race, and gender, indispensable as those topics are.'' It must move beyond the hollow games of the professors who cannot distinguish comrades from ''Friends.''
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/12/28/the_self_critic (1411 words)

	Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others, Verso, Terry Eagleton
		His skill as a reviewer is particularly notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer and the theses of a book, Eagleton, in his inimitable and often wickedly funny style, always paints a vivid theoretical and political fresco as the background to his engagement with the texts.
		Terry Eagleton is perhaps the best-known academic literary critic writing in English today.
		Those with little interest in the abstract world of literary theory (Eagleton's academic specialty and principal interest) will find essays on other topics to entice them.Overall, this is a fine collection from Eagleton, who remains an indispensable and passionate voice for Leftist thought in our tumultuous times.
	allentech.net /bookstore/item_185984667X.html (431 words)

	Oxford University Press: Holy Terror: Terry Eagleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eagleton examines the duality of the sacred (both life-giving and death-dealing) and relates it, via current and past ideas of freedom, to the idea of terror itself.
		With exquisite language, Eagleton succeeds at making plain the political, philosophical, religious, and literary sources of this ever-present phenomenon while drawing together an eclectic number of sources that illuminate our further readings on the subject....
		Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester.
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/InternationalStudies/?view=usa&ci=0199287171 (525 words)

	WWGPro.DE Buchtipps: The Truth About the Irish (Terry Eagleton) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eagleton's relationship to Marxism has gone through many permutations over the years, until the 1970's when he rejected the development of literary theory entirely in favor of a more functional ideal - bringing about social change.
		Irony has always been one of Eagleton's preferred tools, and he is most effective when turning it towards the Irish's undeserved international reputation for hard drinking, fighting, and blarney.
		Eagleton always tries to be even-handed, even when discussing such dangerous topics as The Troubles and Environmentalism; and on the whole, he is successful, coming across as a likable, convivial guide to one of Europe's least understood countries.
	www.wwgpro.de /books-isbn-0312264038.html (628 words)

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