Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton ( born February 22, 1943 in Salford ) is a British Marxist literary theorist.

Life

Terry Eagleton visited as a child, the Catholic Convent School De la Salle of Manchester. He was later a student of the Marxist literary critic Raymond Williams. After he had first turned to the literature of the 19th and 20th century, he devoted himself - in the sense of his teacher - to Marxist literary theory. In the 1960s he was active in the left- Catholic group " Slant " and wrote a number of theological articles and a book on the theology of the New Left Movement. In his most recent publications reveals a resurgence of interest in theological themes. Other important influences on Eagleton's work are psychoanalytic theories and Slavoj Žižek's writings. Currently, Eagleton is Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University.

Position

Its probably best known work of literary theory: An introduction traces the history of the contemporary discussion of texts of the Romantics of the 19th century to the postmodern theorists in recent decades. Although Eagleton is rooted in a Marxist tradition, he is the deconstruction and other recent currents of thought not hostile towards. Eagleton's Marxism is far more than just theoretical interest: He was an active member of Marxist organizations and logs in again and again in publications on political events to speak.

In the 2004 release work after Theory Eagleton laments the situation of the current cultural and literary theory and its bastardization, as he considers the most contemporary interdisciplinary studies of culture and literature - although an interdisciplinary treatment keeps well for fruitful and useful for important issues.

Writings

  • The Body as Language: outline of a new left theology (1970 )
  • Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976 )
  • Introduction to Literary Theory ( 1983 / Germany 1988)
  • Saint Oscar (a play about Oscar Wilde)
  • Ideology: An Introduction (1991 )
  • The Illusions of Postmodernism ( 1996/dt. 1997)
  • The Idea of ​​Culture (2000)
  • The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001)
  • Sweet Violence ( 2003)
  • After Theory ( 2004)
  • The English Novel: An Introduction (2004)
  • Holy Terror (2005)
  • The Meaning of Life ( The Meaning of Life, 2007, 2008 ( Very Short Introduction ) / dt 2008)
  • Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (2009)
  • Evil, translated by Hainer Kober; Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-550-08830-8 (On Evil, 2010)
  • Why did Marx right, translated by Hainer Kober; Ullstein Verlag, Berlin, 2012 ( Why Marx Was Right, 2011)
  • How to Read Literature ( 2013)
  • Culture and the Death of God. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT / USA 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-20399-8
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