If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of ...

Terry Eagleton has been a literary luminary in the U.K. and the U.S. since the mid-1960s, best known for his influential work in Marxist literary and cultural theory and criticism, but also as a ...

Eagleton (The Truth About the Irish) has never been shy about expressing sharp, penetrating opinions. In this entertaining memoir of his childhood and intellectual development, Eagleton lives up to ...

The most poignant image of Karl Marx I have ever encountered is found in the finishing pages of volume 1 of Yvonne Kapp’s biography of Eleanor Marx, the old revolutionary’s fiery chip off the block ...

Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks. The reader can become so delighted with the rhetorical pyrotechnics that the force of the argument is lost. But for all the literary razzle ...

AMONG the public intellectuals of the Western world, a significant camp believes that only one really important battle of ideas is now in progress: between liberal, rational, law-bound modernity and ...

The lively cultural critic Terry Eagle­ton has assembled a collection of ancient sages, Parisian deconstructionists, poets, classical philosophers, and Hebrew prophets to address the role and meaning ...

Statues of martyrs in Westminster Abbey, including Martin Luther King Jr., Oscar Romero and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Wikimedia). Sacrifice can be an unattractive word. It can suggest ideas of masochism ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. This is an extract taken from a speech given by Terry Eagleton at the ...

A tragic mask in the hand of a statue of Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, on the island of Corfu in Greece. (iStock) Midway through the first chapter of Terry Eagleton’s new book, Tragedy, one gets the ...

The meaning of matter, the scope of philosophy and the life of embodied creatures like us are among the topics that Terry Eagleton, the literary theorist and public intellectual, explores in ...

Ifirst read a book by Terry Eagleton when I was a graduate student in English literature 20 years ago. Mr. Eagleton was the English-speaking world’s most famous leftist literary critic, and I was even ...