Articles by Terry Eagleton

• Jameson and Form
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR 59, September-October 2009, pp. 123-137
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Literature
  

  Identifying Fredric Jameson’s literary style as one of his signal achievements, Eagleton asks whether his formal emphases also serve to stave off questions of content: morality, sexuality, subjectivity.

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• Political Beckett?
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR 40, July-August 2006, pp. 67-74
  Subjects: Ireland , Literature
  

  Samuel Beckett’s work for the French Resistance set against his dogged refusal of all ideology. The traces of Ireland’s history—hunger, deferment, deflation, indeterminacy—in his exile art.

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• Capitalism and Form
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR 14, March-April 2002, pp. 119-131
  Subjects: Philosophy
  

  If bourgeois society requires both ceaseless economic dynamism and permanent ethical stability—disorder of invention and desire, order of labour and justification—what figures of the imagination offer a synthesis of these contradictory demands? The intertwining of routines and romances, virtues and villainies, in Scott and Goethe, Dickens and Balzac, Zola and Mann.

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• Subjects and Truths
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR 9, May-June 2001, pp. 155-160
  Subjects: Philosophy
  

  Terry Eagleton on Alain Badiou, Ethics. A French conundrum: can radical universality be philosophically crossed with romantic epiphany?

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• Defending Utopia
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR 4, July-August 2000, pp. 173-176
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
  

  Terry Eagleton on Russell Jacoby, The End of Utopia. What surer sign of accommodation to the status quo than pompous funerals of the utopian imagination? Masks and corollaries of political resignation.

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• Self-Realization, Ethics, and Socialism
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/237, September-October 1999, pp. 150-161
  Subjects: Philosophy
  

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• Nationalism and the Case of Ireland
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/234, March-April 1999, pp. 44-61
  Subjects: Ireland , Nationalism
  

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• Ireland's Obdurate Nationalisms
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/213, September-October 1995, pp. 130-136
  Subjects: Ireland , Nationalism
  

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• The Crisis of Contemporary Culture
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/196, November-December 1992, pp. 29-41
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Doxa and Common Life
  • Terry Eagleton &
  • Pierre Bourdieu

  in NLR I/191, January-February 1992, pp. 111-121
  Subjects: Philosophy
  

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• Saint Oscar: A Foreword
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/177, September-October 1989, pp. 125-128
  Subjects: Literature
  

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• The Silences of David Lodge
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/172, November-December 1988, pp. 93-102
  Subjects: Literature
  

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• Resources for a Journey of Hope: The Significance of Raymond Williams
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/168, March-April 1988, pp. 3-11
  Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History
  

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• The Poetry of Radical Republicanism
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/158, July-August 1986, pp. 123-128
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/152, July-August 1985, pp. 60-73
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• The Question of Value: a Discussion
  • Terry Eagleton &
  • Peter Fuller

  in NLR I/142, November-December 1983, pp. 76-90
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Wittgenstein's Friends
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/135, September-October 1982, pp. 64-90
  Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Philosophy
  

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• The Idealism of American Criticism
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/127, May-June 1981, pp. 53-65
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Liberality and Order: The Criticism of John Bayley
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/110, July-August 1978, pp. 29-40
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• 'Aesthetics and Politics'
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/107, January-February 1978, pp. 21-34
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Criticism and Politics: The Work of Raymond Williams
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/95, January-February 1976, pp. 3-23
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Reply to Mulhern
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/92, July-August 1975, pp. 107-108
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Ideology and Literary Form
  • Terry Eagleton

  in NLR I/90, March-April 1975, pp. 81-109
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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