Quotes by Terry Eagleton

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Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, wh — Terry Eagleton
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. — Terry Eagleton
Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile. — Terry Eagleton
The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a tactful publican, it — Terry Eagleton
Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no universi — Terry Eagleton
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the — Terry Eagleton
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look a — Terry Eagleton
If literature matters today, it is chiefly because it seems to many conventional critics one of the few remaining places — Terry Eagleton
What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the — Terry Eagleton
So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, it is a thoroughly a — Terry Eagleton
When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had — Terry Eagleton
In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an — Terry Eagleton
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianis — Terry Eagleton
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and — Terry Eagleton
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. — Terry Eagleton
It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health. — Terry Eagleton
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nation — Terry Eagleton
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. — Terry Eagleton
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can — Terry Eagleton
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of — Terry Eagleton