There have always been elements of ironic comedy about the spectacle of Marxist academics fervently proclaiming their revolutionary message while safely ensconced in Western institutions of higher ...

Terry Eagleton has been a literary luminary in the U.K. and the U.S. since the mid-1960s, best known for his influential work in Marxist literary and cultural theory and criticism, but also as a ...

Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks. The reader can become so delighted with the rhetorical pyrotechnics that the force of the argument is lost. But for all the literary razzle ...

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 ...

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Penguin Press. 320 pages. $30. Humour, by Terry Eagleton. Yale University Press. 224 pages. $24.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“What will be God’s,” asks Tertullian, “if all things are Caesar’s?” It’s a challenging question at a time when the state is asking us to acquiesce to a secret, unaccountable police force.

The meaning of matter, the scope of philosophy and the life of embodied creatures like us are among the topics that Terry Eagleton, the literary theorist and public intellectual, explores in ...