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Terry Eagleton · Pregnant with Monsters: Schopenhauer makes a stir
Schopenhauer found it hard to live humbly and enjoyed making a stir with his dismal view of human history. Sensationally one-sided though that...
1700th anniversary of Nicaea: I believe in – the Holy Catholic Church
If the Church has lived out his compassion for the poor, it has also thrown its authority behind the privileged and powerful.
Jane Austen was no Romantic Sensibility needs to be restrained by sense
Everybody loves Jane Austen, just as everybody loves Oscar Wilde and Billy Connolly. It's true that an American critic in the Sixties called...
Modernism’s Secret Agent
It might be claimed that modernist works of art have a negative aspect in common, namely their attempt to break with realism.
Alasdair MacIntyre’s absent centre
In 1971 the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre published Against the Self-Images of the Age. Literary theorist Terry Eagleton reviewed the book,...
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A literary theorist and critic, Eagleton has critiqued the Vatican for its historical and contemporary roles in societal issues, particularly its stance on poverty and social justice.