Terry Eagleton

British writer, academic and educator · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1943 · age 83

Terence Francis Eagleton is an English literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of English Literature at Lancaster University.

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A life in dates

2011“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible.”In their words(2011) Literary Theory: An Introduction. p. 147Read the whole statement

“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”In their wordsChapter 1, p. 6Read the whole statement

“Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.”In their wordsChapter 2, p. 12Read the whole statement

“History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.”In their wordsChapter 3, p. 44Read the whole statement

“The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.”In their wordsChapter 4, p. 70Read the whole statement

“The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.”In their wordsChapter 5, p. 115Read the whole statement

1999Honorary Doctorate of the University of Santiago de CompostelaAward1989Deutscher Memorial PrizeAward1943Born22 February 1943

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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
2011 · Preface, p. xi, Own words
We face a probable future of nuclear-armed states warring over a scarcity of resources; and that scarcity is largely the consequence of capitalism itself.
2011 · Chapter 1, p. 8, Own words
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
2011 · Chapter 4, p. 65, Own words