Eagleton (The Truth About the Irish) has never been shy about expressing sharp, penetrating opinions. In this entertaining memoir of his childhood and intellectual development, Eagleton lives up to ...

Terry Eagleton is out with a new edition of his 1991 book Ideology: An Introduction, and it could make for some cringingly awkward moments around the University of Manchester campus. Terry Eagleton is ...

The author of the seminal cultural studies primer Literary Theory now levels an equally trenchant critique at the field in this brilliant and provocative reassessment. Writing in a valedictory mood, ...

Statues of martyrs in Westminster Abbey, including Martin Luther King Jr., Oscar Romero and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Wikimedia). Sacrifice can be an unattractive word. It can suggest ideas of masochism ...

The lively cultural critic Terry Eagle­ton has assembled a collection of ancient sages, Parisian deconstructionists, poets, classical philosophers, and Hebrew prophets to address the role and meaning ...

A tragic mask in the hand of a statue of Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, on the island of Corfu in Greece. (iStock) Midway through the first chapter of Terry Eagleton’s new book, Tragedy, one gets the ...

Literary theorists, and probably other scholars, might be divided into two types: settlers and wanderers. The settlers stay put, “hovering one inch” over a set of issues or topics, as Paul de Man, the ...

Ifirst read a book by Terry Eagleton when I was a graduate student in English literature 20 years ago. Mr. Eagleton was the English-speaking world’s most famous leftist literary critic, and I was even ...

The most poignant image of Karl Marx I have ever encountered is found in the finishing pages of volume 1 of Yvonne Kapp’s biography of Eleanor Marx, the old revolutionary’s fiery chip off the block ...

If ideas are tools-- “equipment for living,” so to speak -- we might well imagine the culture as a heavily patched-up conceptual backpack that has been around the world a few times. It has been ...

AMONG the public intellectuals of the Western world, a significant camp believes that only one really important battle of ideas is now in progress: between liberal, rational, law-bound modernity and ...

This is an extract taken from a speech given by Terry Eagleton at the Theos annual lecture in October 2016. What Nietzsche was the first to see was not only that God was dead on his feet, but that it ...