(P/B) THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM
A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, from Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida. This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason. The disintegration of this fragile culture brought on a crisis in criticism, whose history since the 18th century has been fraught with ambivalence and anxiety. Eagleton's account embraces Addison and Steele,...
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(P/B) WALTER BENJAMIN OR TOWARDS A REVOLUTIONARY CRITICISM
This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. As the subtitle suggests, its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art but to chart a dynamic new course for contemporary socialist criticism. To do this, Eagleton brushes Benjamin's Trauerspiel against seventeenth-century British literature, tests his concept of the 'aura' against Freud and Lacan, and undertakes his most sustained engagement with Derrida and the political crossroads of deconstruction. (...
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(H/B) RADICAL SACRIFICE
The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this analysis, Terry Eagleton makes a compelling argument that the idea of sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Pursuing the complex lineage of sacrifice in a lyrical discourse, Eagleton focuses on the Old and New Testaments, offering a virtuosic analysis o...
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ΜΕΤΑ ΤΗ ΘΕΩΡΙΑ
Το βιβλίο αυτό απευθύνεται όχι μόνο σε όσους ενδιαφέρονται για την παρούσα κατάσταση της πολιτισμικής θεωρίας, αλλά και στους ειδικούς στο χώρο αυτό, γιατί επιχειρηματολογεί ενάντια σε ό,τι θεωρείται τρέχουσα ορθοδοξία. Η πολιτισμική αυτή ορθοδοξία δεν επιδιώκει ούτε να κατανοήσει ούτε να επιλύσει τα σημερινά πολιτικά και κοινωνικά προβλήματα. Ο T. Eagleton προσπαθεί να εξηγήσει γιατί συμβαίνει αυτό και πως θα μπορούσε να διορθωθεί. Χρησιμοποιεί συνδυαστικά το λόγο της θεωρητικής σκέψης και το λόγο της κοινής λογικής, προκειμένου να επανατ...
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(P/B) ON EVIL
For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept. It smacks too much of absolute judgments and metaphysical certainties to suit the modern age. In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world. In a book that ranges...
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(P/B) CULTURE AND THE DEATH OF GOD
How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replacement for God. Engaging with a phenomenally wide range of ideas, issues, and thinkers from the Enlightenment to today, Eagleton discusses the state of religion before and after 9/11, the ironies surrounding Western capitalism's part in spawning not only secularism but...
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CRITICISM AND IDEOLOGY
The fiery literary and cultural critic returns with a new edition of his classic work. Terry Eagleton is one of the most important - and most radical - theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism. In this new edition of his groundbreaking treatise on literary theory, Eagleton seeks to develop a sophisticated relationship between Marxism and literary criticism. Ranging across the key w...
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IDEOLOGY
The best guide available to this complex concept, newly updated. Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both newcomers to the topic and for those already familiar with the debate, Terry Eagleton unravels the many different definitions of ideology, and explores the concept's torturous history from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. The book provides lucid accounts of the thought of key Marxist thinkers, as well as of...
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(P/B) THE IDEOLOGY OF THE AESTHETIC
The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in the work of Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Lukacs, Adorno, Habermas, and others. Wide in span, as well as morally and...
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(H/B) HOPE WITHOUT OPTIMISM
In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism, cheeriness, desire, idealism or adherence to the doctrine of Progress, bringing into focus a standpoint that requires reflection and commitment, arises from clear-sighted rationality, can be cultivated by practice and self-discipline, and which acknowledges but refuses to capitulate to the ...
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(P/B) WHY MARX WAS RIGHT
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on - he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major crises, Why Marx Was Right is as urgent and timely as it is br...
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Ο ΜΑΡΞΙΣΜΟΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΚΗ ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ
Οι καλλιτέχνες καί οι κριτικοί του μπολσεβικικού Αριστερού Μετώπου για την Τέχνη συνήθιζαν να υποστηρίζουν δημιουργήματα πού αποτελούσαν μιαν άμεση απάντηση σε ό,τι αυτοί αποκαλούσαν "κοινωνική επιταγή" - πού φαίνονταν, όχι σαν μυστηριωδώς εμπνευσμένες δημιουργίες, αλλά σαν δημιουργήματα με κοινωνική λειτουργικότητα. Καί τούτο το βιβλίο έχει από την αρχή του, δημιουργηθεί με αυτόν ακριβώς τον τρόπο. Για μερικά χρόνια ήμουν υπεύθυνος σε μια σειρά μαθημάτων μαρξιστικής λογοτεχνικής κριτικής στη Σχολή Αγγλικής Λογοτεχνίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο της...
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(P/B) MARXISM AND LITERARY CRITICISM
Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis. Sharp and concise, it is, without doubt, the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Marxist philosophy and social theory since the nineteenth century. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) AGAINST THE GRAIN
These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton's continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thought in the human sciences. Eagleton's combative intelligence here explores the encounter between Marxism and contemporary European and American literary theory. Included are a survey of the Althusserian contribution to literary analysis; thoughts on the fraught relations between Marxism and poststructuralism; and a brilliant evocation of the affi...
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(P/B) MYTHS OF POWER
Myths of Power sets out to interpret the fiction of the Bronte sisters in light of a Marxist analysis of the historical conditions in which it was produced. Its aim is not merely to relate literary facts, but by a close critical examination of the novels, to find in them a significant structure of ideas and values which related to the Brontes' ambiguous situation within the class-system of their society. Its intention is to forge close relations between the novels, nineteenth-century ideology, and historical forces, in order to illuminate ...
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(H/B) WHY MARX WAS RIGHT
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on - he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major crises, Why Marx Was Right is as urgent and timely as it is br...
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ΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΖΩΗ, ΤΗΝ ΠΟΙΗΣΗ, ΤΗΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ
Παρουσίες, όπως του Τέρρυ Ήγκλετον, με την αμεσότητα του λόγου, με τη συνειδητή εκ μέρους του υπονόμευση του θεωρητικού ύφους, με την ενσωμάτωση του πολιτικού σε κάθε στροφή της επιστημονικής προσέγγισης του λόγου, μαζί με τη διαρκή ανάδειξη της κοινωνικής διάστασης των πραγμάτων στο βάθος, είναι παρουσίες πολύτιμες στις μέρες μας. Γιατί συνειδητοποιούμε ότι "χωρίς τη γλώσσα [το λόγο], τις περίπλοκες έννοιες, τις δυνατότητες της αφηρημένης σκέψης, του υπολογισμού και της γενίκευσης, δεν θα μπορούσαμε να σχεδιάσουμε μαζικές δολοφονίες ούτε ...
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(P/B) AFTER THEORY
Today the barriers between high and low culture have crumbled and academics study soap operas as well as sonnets. But does our obsession with 'culture' mean we have overlooked the things that really matter? Can we still be politically engaged in today's free-wheeling, post-modern, consumer era? Terry Eagleton's acclaimed Literary Theory established him as one of the leading cultural theorists of the Left. Now, he argues, the age of theory is over. It is time to urgently re-engage with the essential truths that post-modernism has denied - l...
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Η ΕΝΝΟΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΥΛΤΟΥΡΑΣ
Ο Eagleton είναι ο θεωρητικός της εναντίωσης και της αντιπαλότητας. Μπορεί να άνοιξε διάλογο με το έργο πολλών θεωρητικών (Λούκατς, Αλτουσέρ, Μασρέ, Μπένγιαμιν, Μπαχτίν) ή να αξιοποίησε στο έργο του διάφορες θεωρίες από το φεμινισμό μέχρι την ψυχανάλυση, ωστόσο συχνά ο Eagleton προτείνει την επιστροφή στον παραδοσιακό ρόλο της κριτικής ή της κουλτούρας ως έναν τρόπο για τον επαναπροσδιορισμό τους στο παρόν αλλά και ως υπενθύμιση για το ζωτικό και καίριο ρόλο που διαδραμάτισαν στο παρελθόν. Αναζητώντας σταθερές ηθικές και πολιτικές αρχές γι...
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(H/B) HOLY TERROR