Foreword"That Dreadful Terry Eagleton": Politics, Ethics, and Literary Praxis

  1. Barbeito Varela, J. Manuel
  2. Norris, Chistopher 1
  1. 1 Cardiff University
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    Cardiff University

    Cardiff, Reino Unido

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Journal:
Theory Now. Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought

ISSN: 2605-2822

Year of publication: 2022

Volume: 5

Issue: 2

Pages: 1-8

Type: Article

DOI: 10.30827/TN.V5I2.25904 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Terry Eagleton’s is one of the most relevant interventions in the debates on the most burning issues of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. A formidable polemicist, he has questioned hegemonic discourses on relativism, truth, and universals. He has tackled the central issues in the humanities: social and moral order, law and desire, time and history, the mind-body problem, the subject, experience, freedom, violence, and love. He has succeeded in bringing into dialectical relationship Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Existentialism, and Christian thought. This collection of essay deals with Eagleton’s most important concerns and the most characteristic qualities of his style: ideology, culture and religion, time and history, Marxism, materialism, literary theory and criticism, psychoanalysis, humour, and the good life.  

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