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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.

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“Ideology … is therefore necessarily false; its social function is not to give agents a true knowledge of the social structure but simply to insert them as it were into their practical activities.”

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

“Ideology is present to such an extent in all the agents' activities that it becomes indistinguishable from their lived experience.”

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

“Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 151

“Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 111

“Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 113 (See also: Julian Jaynes)

“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.”

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Preface, p. xi
2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011)

“If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 131

“Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.”

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Conclusion: political Criticism, p. 172
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)

“Chaucer was a class traitor
Shakespeare hated the mob
Donne sold out a bit later
Sidney was a nob.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 14, The Ballad of English Literature

“All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 145 (See also: Rene Girard)

“What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 3, 79

“Cultural theory as we have it promises to grapple with some fundamental problems, but on the whole fails to deliver. It has been shamefaced about morality and metaphysics, embarrassed about love, biology, religion and revolution, largely silent about evil, reticent about death and suffering, dogmatic about essences, universals and foundations, and superficial about truth, objectivity and disinterestedness. This, on any estimate, is rather a large slice of human existence to fall down on. It is also, as we have suggested before, rather an awkward moment in history to find oneself with little or nothing to say about such fundamental questions.”

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2000s, After Theory (2003)

“What perished in the Soviet Union was Marxist only in the sense that the Inquisition was Christian”

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2000s, Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition Marxism and Literary Theory (2002)

“If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 1, p. 21

“When it comes to who exactly should be exploited, the system is admirably egalitarian.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 7, p. 162

“It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 120

“All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 10, The Critic as Clown

“At the level of experience the social whole remains opaque to the agents.”

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

“The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 62

“The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 5, p. 115

“We face a probable future of nuclear-armed states warring over a scarcity of resources; and that scarcity is largely the consequence of capitalism itself. For the first time in history, our prevailing form of life has the power not simply to breed racism and spread cultural cretinism, drive us into war or herd us into labour camps, but to wipe us from the planet. Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism. The traditional leftist slogan ‘‘Socialism or barbarism’’ was never more grimly apposite.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 1, p. 8

“Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.”

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Zdroj: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 138

“What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons—reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.”

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1990s, Ideology (1991)

“Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 6, p. 134

“History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 3, p. 44

“Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 9, p. 202

“Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.”

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Zdroj: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 2, p. 12

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