Terry Eagleton

Quotes

• “Deconstruction... insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”
• “Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.”
• “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.”
• “If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades.”
• “All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.”
• “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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Key facts

Born

Terence Francis Eagleton , ( 1943-02-22 ) 22 February 1943 (age 83) , Salford , England

Spouses

Rosemary Galpin ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1966 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1976 ) ​ Willa Murphy ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1997 ) ​

Alma mater

Trinity College, Cambridge Jesus College, Cambridge

Academic advisor

Raymond Williams

Influences

Karl Marx F. R. Leavis Raymond Williams Louis Althusser Herbert McCabe

Discipline

Literature philosophy

Sub discipline

Literary theory

School or tradition

Continental philosophy Marxism

Institutions

Wadham College, Oxford Linacre College, Oxford St Catherine's College, Oxford University of Manchester Lancaster University

Doctoral students

Ken Hirschkop Sally Ledger

Notable students

Frank Albers [ nl ]

Notable works

Literary Theory (1983) The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990) The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996)

Notable ideas

Good/Bad utopianism

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