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British writer, academic and educator

Terence Francis Eagleton FBA (born February 22, 1943) is a British literary theorist, critics and philosopher. Eagleton is a Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University, and as a former Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland.

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If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

Cultural theory as we have it promises to grapple with some fundamental problems, but on the whole fails to deliver. It has been shamefaced about morality and metaphysics, embarrassed about love, biology, religion and revolution, largely silent about evil, reticent about death and suffering, dogmatic about essences, universals and foundations, and superficial about truth, objectivity and disinterestedness. This, on any estimate, is rather a large slice of human existence to fall down on. It is also, as we have suggested before, rather an awkward moment in history to find oneself with little or nothing to say about such fundamental questions.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.

What perished in the Soviet Union was Marxist only in the sense that the Inquisition was Christian