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Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton FBA is a British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual. 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 Introduction , which has sold over 750,000 copies. The work elucidated the emerging literary theory of the period. He has also been a prominent critic of postmodernism, publishing works such as The Illusions of Postmodernism .

Formerly the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester , Eagleton has held visiting appointments at universities around the world including Cornell, Duke, Iowa, Melbourne, Trinity College in Dublin, and Yale.

Eagleton delivered Yale University's 2008 Terry Lectures and the University of Edinburgh's 2010 Gifford Lecture entitled The God Debate. He gave the 2010 Richard Price Memorial Lecture at Newington Green Unitarian Church, speaking on "The New Atheism and the War on Terror". In 2009, he published a book which accompanied his lectures on religion, entitled Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate.

✵ 22. február 1943
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“Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 7, p. 177

“Deconstruction… insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”

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Frère Jacques: The Politics of Deconstruction, ch. 6, Against the Grain (1984)
1980s

“All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 48

“Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 64-65

“Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.”

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Introduction: What is Literature?, p. 2
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Kontext: Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

“Reading is not a straightforward linear movement,”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 67 (See also: Northrop Frye)
Kontext: Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.

“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 1, p. 6

“A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”

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Zdroj: Ideology: An Introduction

“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”

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Zdroj: Why Marx Was Right

“If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.”

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Zdroj: The Meaning of Life

“It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 65

“As opposed to science ideology has the precise function of hiding the real contradictions and of reconstituting on an imaginary level a relatively coherent discourse which serves as the horizon of agents' experience.”

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Zdroj: 1990s, Ideology (1991), p. 136

“I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U. S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.”

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New Preface to Literary Theory: An Introduction, Anniversary Edition, (2008)
2000s

“It is silly to call fat people “gravitationally challenged”, a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.”

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Guardian (October 27, 1992)
1990s

“The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 9, p. 197

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the ‘imaginary’ level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”

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(2011) Literary Theory: An Introduction. p. 147
2010s

“The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 70

“It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.”

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1990s, Ideology (1991)

“Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman “other” or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 13, The Revolt of the Reader

“It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 114

“Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of… revolutionary avant-gardism.”

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Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism, ch. 9 (1985)
1980s

“Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.”

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Afterword, p. 190
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)

“The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.”

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Conclusion: political Criticism, p. 174
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)

“If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.”

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Afterword, p. 190
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)

“There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 100

“In some traditionalist universities not long ago, you could not research on authors who were still alive. This was a great incentive to slip a knife between their ribs one foggy evening, or a remarkable test of patience if your chosen novelist was in rude health and only 34.”

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2000s, After Theory (2003)

“Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us. The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 10, p. 236

“Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.”

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Guardian (October 27, 1992)
1990s

“We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 167

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