Terry Eagleton

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Why Marx Was Right

An Introduction

Literary Theory

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How to Read Literature

Charles Dickens

In the fog of London, lawyers enrich themselves with endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance.

Bleak House

Terry Eagleton′s classic Literary Theory has served as an inspiration to a whole generation of students and teachers. Written in 1982, it appeared, as Professor Eagleton explains, at the watershed of two very different decades. It could not anticipate what was to come after, neither could it grasp what had happened in literary theory in the light of where it was to lead. In this new edition this dilemma is redressed and necessarily renewed. With characteristic verve and humour, Professor Eagleton provides for a new generation of students an important retrospective, reviewing developments that have occurred since his book was first published – in feminist theory, post–structuralism, postmodernism, or broadly speaking, what is termed cultural theory.

This title is an introduction to the application of Marx's theories to the study of literature. It provides a survey of major 20th century literary theorists, including Marcuse and Jameson.

Marxism and Literary Criticism

For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept. It smacks too much of absolute judgments and metaphysical certainties to suit the modern age. In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world. In a book that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust, Eagleton investigates the frightful plight of those doomed souls who apparently destroy for no reason. In the process, he poses a set of intriguing questions. Is evil really a kind of nothingness? Why should it appear so glamorous and seductive? Why does goodness seem so boring? Is it really possible for human beings to delight in destruction for no reason at all?

On Evil

As heralded everywhere from NPR to the pages of the New York Times Magazine, a new era is underway in our colleges and universities: after a lengthy tenure, the dominance of postmodern theory has come to an end. In this timely and topical book, the legendary Terry Eagleton ("one of [our] best-known public intellectuals."-Boston Globe) traces the rise and fall of these ideas from the 1960s through the 1990s, candidly assessing the resultant gains and losses. What's needed now, After Theory argues, is a return to the big questions and grand narratives. Today's global politics demand we pay attention to a range of topics that have gone ignored by the academy and public alike, from fundamentalism to objectivity, religion to ethics. Fresh, provocative, and consistently engaging, Eagleton's latest salvo will challenge everyone looking to better grasp the state of the world.

After Theory

The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in the work of Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Lukacs, Adorno, Habermas, and others. Wide in span, as well as morally and politically committed, this is Terry Eagleton's major work to date. It forms both an original enquiry and an exemplary introduction.

The Ideology of the Aesthetic

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis. Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and many more. Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.

How to Read a Poem

In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.

The Illusions of Postmodernism

We have all wondered about the meaning of life. Is there an answer? Is it up to us? Or is the question a bogus one? Terry Eagleton takes a witty, stimulating look at this most compelling of questions - and proposes his own answer.

The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction

A native Briton describes America and its citizens through his English eyes, humorously questioning their choices in bumper stickers, use of adjectives and superlatives and their overall lack of appreciation for the teapot.

Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of Ameica

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The Function of Criticism

"Culture" is said to be one of the most complex words in the English language, and the term which is sometimes considered to be its opposite - Nature - is also awarded the accolade of being the most complex of all. This work focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture.

The Idea of Culture

"Terry Eagleton makes a powerful argument that materialism is at the center of today's important scientific and cultural as well as philosophical debates, following the inroads being made by contemporary neuroscience on such issues as the nature of consciousness, the body's role in cognition, and the existence of mental states. The author reveals entirely fresh ways of considering the values and beliefs of three very different materialists--Marx, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein--drawing striking comparisons between their philosophies while reflecting on a wide array of topics, from ideology and history to language, ethics, and the aesthetic."--

Materialism

«E se as objeções mais comuns às propostas de Marx estiverem erradas?» Neste livro aguerrido e controverso, Terry Eagleton contesta o preconceito que dá o marxismo como morto e ultrapassado. Pegando em dez das objeções mais comuns ao marxismo - que redunda em tirania política, que reduz tudo à economia, que não passa de uma forma de determinismo histórico, etc. -, demonstra para cada uma de que forma são deploráveis caricaturas do pensamento de Marx. Num mundo em que o capitalismo tem sido abalado por graves crises e em que o ódio à esquerda se torna cada dia mais manifesto, Porque é que Marx Tinha Razão é tão urgente e oportuno como ousado e honesto. Escrito com a argúcia, o humor e a clareza habituais em Eagleton, atrairá um público muito mais vasto do que o restrito público académico.

Porque É que Marx Tinha Razão

Terence Eagleton

‘His thought is redneck, yours is doctrinal and mine is deliciously supple.’ Ideology has never been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. From the left it can often be seen as the exclusive property of ruling classes, and from the right as an arid and totalizing exception to their own common sense. For some, the concept now seems too ubiquitous to be meaningful; for others, too cohesive for a world of infinite difference. Here, in a book written for both newcomers to the topic and those already familiar with the debate, Terry Eagleton unravels the many different definitions of ideology, and explores the concept’s tortuous history from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Ideology provides lucid interpretations of the thought of key Marxist thinkers and of others such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud and the various poststructuralists. As well as clarifying a notoriously confused topic, this new work by one of our most important contemporary critics is a controversial political intervention into current theoretical debates. It will be essential reading for students and teachers of literature and politics.

Terry Eagleton

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