Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced. Terry Eagleton demandformidentity Change image and share on social
It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted? Terry Eagleton confrontculturedilute share on social
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way. Terry Eagleton adultallowcapability share on social
Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant. Terry Eagleton tolerant Change image and share on social
People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are. Terry Eagleton achievecolourcommit share on social
Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it. Terry Eagleton civilisationculturedaily share on social
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. Terry Eagleton agebackmodern Change image and share on social
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. Terry Eagleton actionerasefamine share on social
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. Terry Eagleton avantexpensegardism Change image and share on social
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human. Terry Eagleton affairaristotlegoodness Change image and share on social