Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton (2008)

Terry Eagleton (born February 22, 1943 in Salford ) is a British Marxist literary theorist .

Life

Terry Eagleton visited as a child, the Catholic convent school De la Salle of Manchester . He was later a student of the Marxist literary critic Raymond Williams . After he first turned to the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, he switched to Marxist literary theory - in the spirit of his teacher . In the 1960s he was involved in the left Catholic group "Slant" and wrote a number of theological articles and a book on the theology of the New Left movement . Impressed by Frank B. Farrell and his book “Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World”, his recent publications show a renewed interest in theological topics. Other important influences on Eagleton's work are psychoanalytic theories and the writings of Slavoj Žižek . Eagleton is currently Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University .

position

Probably his best-known work, Literary Theory: An Introduction, traces the history of contemporary engagement with texts by the romantics of the 19th century through to the postmodern theorists of the last few decades. In dialectical thinking, Eagleton combines the apparent contradictions of world views. As a radical rooted both in the socio-historical Marxist and in the ontologically realistic Catholic tradition, he is not opposed to deconstruction and other more recent currents of thought. Eagleton's Marxism is much more than just a theoretical interest: He was an active member of Marxist organizations and repeatedly speaks out in publications on political events.

In the work After Theory , published in 2004, Eagleton laments the state of contemporary cultural and literary theory and its bastardization , which he regards as most contemporary interdisciplinary studies of culture and literature - although he considers an interdisciplinary treatment to be fruitful and sensible on important topics.

Fonts

• The Body as Language: outline of a new left theology (1970)
• Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976)
• Introduction to literary theory (1983 / German 1988)
• Saint Oscar (a play about Oscar Wilde)
• Ideology: An Introduction (1991)
• The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996 / German 1997)
• The Idea of ​​Culture (2000)
• The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001)
• Sweet Violence (2003)
• After Theory (2004)
• The English Novel: An Introduction (2004)
• Holy Terror (2005)
• The Meaning of Life (The Meaning of Life, 2007, 2008 (Very Short Introduction) / dt. 2008)
• Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (2009)
• The evil , translated by Hainer Kober ; Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-550-08830-8 ( On Evil , 2010)
• Why Marx is right , translated by Hainer Kober ; Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2012 ( Why Marx Was Right , 2011)
• How to Read Literature (2013); Reading literature: An invitation , translated by Holger Hanowell; Reclam 2016
• The death of God and the crisis of culture ; Droemer Knaur, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-629-13076-1 ( Culture and the Death of God. Yale University Press, New Haven CT / USA 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-20399-8 )
• Hope without Optimism , 2015.
  • German by Hainer Kober: Hopeful, but not optimistic ; Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-550-08127-9 .
• Culture (2016).
  • German by Hainer Kober: Culture . Ullstein, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-550-08170-5 .
• Materialism (2017)
  • German by Stefan Kraft: Materialism. Capture and change the world . Promedia, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-853-71433-1 .
• Radical Sacrifice (2018)
  • German edition: Sacrifice. Surrender and Liberation . Promedia, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85371-465-2 .

literature

• David Alderson: Terry Eagleton . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York 2004, ISBN 978-0-3338-0127-7 .
• Ola Sigurdson: Theology and Marxism in Eagleton and Zizek: A Conspiracy of Hope . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-2303-4011-4 .
• James Smith: Terry Eagleton: A Critical Introduction . Polity Press, Cambridge [et al. a.] 2008, ISBN 978-0-7456-3609-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Terry Eagleton in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Terry Eagleton at perlentaucher.de
• "Sport should be done away with" - Interview with Nils Markwardt in the Friday of May 28, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Religion/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5OTUzMjE3OQ== , accessed on February 1, 2013.
2. ↑ Money as a basis: Terry Eagleton: "Culture" , review in Deutschlandfunk from May 29, 2018, accessed May 29, 2018