Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
- Terry Eagleton
More Quotes By Terry Eagleton
- People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things...
- Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way...
- Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
- Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman “other” or flawed derivative of the author;...
- After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable...
- The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike...
- Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is ‘The Book of British Birds,’...
- [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their...
- Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation,...
- A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people...
- Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
- The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has...
- Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
- Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as...
- From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without...
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