A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it fee… - Terry Eagleton
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it fee…
- Terry Eagleton
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it. - Terry Eagleton
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happe… - Terry Eagleton
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happe…
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, … - Terry Eagleton
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, …
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpati… - Terry Eagleton
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpati…
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, pow… - Terry Eagleton
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, pow…
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs. - Terry Eagleton
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace. - Terry Eagleton
Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitl… - Terry Eagleton
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitl…
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