Terry EagletonA collection of 17 posts

War

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. ...

Society

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a prejudice...

Positive

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few pos...

Poetry

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more ingenious...

Knowledge

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is ...

Imagination

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United...

Home

With fiction you can talk about plot character and narrative whereas a poem b...

History

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from uppe...

History

Irish fiction is full of secrets guilty pasts divided identities. It is no won...

History

The study of history and philosophy accompanied by some acquaintance with art a...