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1	Literary Theory: An Introduction more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist Noted literary critic Terry Eagleton presents an undergraduate-level overview of his discipline. The first essay, "The Rise of English", places English in a historical context. Other chapters explain such topics as reader-response theories, structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis and literature, and politics and literature. see all copies from £3.48! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
2	Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist Terry Eagleton's witty and polemical "Reason, Faith, and Revolution" is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the 'superstitious' view of God held by most atheists and agnostics, ... see all copies from £11.48! new only from £11.48! \| first editions
3	The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist 'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them', writes Terry Eagleton, who, in these pages, asks the most important question any of us ever ask, and attempts to answer it. So what is the meaning of life? In this witty, spirited, and stimulating inquiry, Eagleton shows how centuries of thinkers - from ... see all copies from £4.35! new only from £4.35!
4	The Meaning of Life more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we're asking? Terry Eagleton takes a stimulating and quirky look at this most compelling of questions: at the answers explored in philosophy and literature; at the crisis of meaning in modern times; and suggests his own solution to how we might ... see all copies from £5.11! new only from £5.11!
5	Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontes, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer -- Terry Eagleton's achievements are many and his combative intelligence widely admired and respected. His skill as a reviewer is particularly notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer ... see all copies from £3.57! new only from £3.57! \| first editions
6	The Ideology of the Aesthetic more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to ... see all copies from £7.44! new only from £21.25!
7	After Theory more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist As heralded everywhere from NPR to the pages of the New York Times Magazine, a new era is underway in our colleges and universities: after a lengthy tenure, the dominance of postmodern theory has come to an end. In this timely and topical book, the legendary Terry Eagleton ("one of [our] best-known public intellectuals. "-Boston Globe) traces the ... see all copies from £5.29! new only from £5.29! \| first editions
8	Ideology: An Introduction more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist 'His thought is redneck, yours is doctrinal and mine is deliciously supple.' Ideology has never been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. From the left it can often be seen as the exclusive property of ruling classes, and from the right as an arid and totalizing exception to their own common sense. ... see all copies from £4.96! new only from £10.93! \| first editions
9	Marxism and literary criticism more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton has some answers in this wonderfully clear analysis. For this Routledge Classics edition the author has written a challenging new introduction which explains the continuing relevance of this work for the twenty ... see all copies from £3.57! new only from £6.28! \| first editions
10	The Illusions of Postmodernism more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist This brilliant critique explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. His primary concern is less with the more intricate formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu of postmodernism as a whole. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of ... see all copies from £9.12! new only from £16.95! \| first editions
11 view cover	Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist Critic Terry Eagleton explores the nature of tragedy, drawing on the traditional Aristotlean definition and the works of, among others, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Yeats, and Thomas Hardy, as well as more modern views of what constitutes a tragedy. see all copies from £10.09! new only from £18.02!
12 view cover	The Idea of Culture more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist 'Culture' is said to be one of the two or three most complex words in the English language, and the term which is sometimes considered to be its opposite - Nature - is commonly awarded the accolade of being the most complex of all. Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of ... see all copies from £5.97! new only from £16.26!
13 view cover	Walter Benjamin, or, Towards a revolutionary criticism more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist Part of "Radical Thinkers" series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. see all copies from £4.06! new only from £4.06! \| first editions
14 view cover	Eagleton Reader P more books like this by Stephen Regan (Editor), Terry Eagleton, Steven Regan (Editor) add to wishlist In The Eagleton Reader, Stephen Regan presents a lively and judicious selection of Terry Eagleton's essays, lectures and reviews, demonstrating the breadth and incisiveness of Eagleton's critical judgements, his playful, ironic intelligence, and his provocative intervention in the cultural debates of the past thirty years. This Reader is a ... see all copies from £7.40! new only from £29.58!
15 view cover	How to Read a Poem more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, "How To Read A Poem" is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. This book offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. It takes a wide range ... see all copies from £10.19! new only from £10.19! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Politics of Human Rights more books like this by Obrad Savic (Introduction by), Terry Eagleton (Preface by) add to wishlist An encounter between theory and practice which recognizes a group of courageous Serbian intellectuals. see all copies from £8.15! new only from £28.42! \| first editions
17 view cover	Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx more books like this by Professor Jacques Derrida, Terry Eagleton, Frederic Jameson add to wishlist Discusses Derrida's political work and Derrida responds. see all copies from £4.35! new only from £4.35!
18 view cover	The Truth about the Irish more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist Famous Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton takes on the Emerald Isle in this book, which is less an intellectual analysis of the country than an energetic tour of its cultural manifestations. see all copies from £2.82! new only from £5.41! \| first editions
19 view cover	Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist The prolific literary theorist (and celebrated Marxist) Terry Eagleton turns his gaze on Ireland, especially on that storied country's literary output over the last three centuries. Eagleton writes on well-known figures including Yeats and Beckett but takes up the cause of less celebrated writers such as John Toland, William McGinn, and William ... see all copies from £7.79! new only from £16.10! \| first editions
20 view cover	Ideology more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist This collection of readings on the concept of ideology is brought together by the Marxist critic, Terry Eagleton. His introduction traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more theoretical style the various meanings of the word and their significance. The readings begin with the first English translations of some of the ... see all copies from £4.48! new only from £19.82!
21 view cover	Scholars and Rebels: In Nineteenth-Century Ireland more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist Terry Eagleton provides a novel account of Ireland's neglected "national" intellectuals, an extraordinary group, including such figures as Oscar Wilde's father William Wilde, Charles Lever, Samuel Ferguson, Isaac Butt, Sheridan Le Fanu. They formed a kind of Irish version of "Bloomsbury", but one composed, exceptionally, of scientists, ... see all copies from £5.30! new only from £5.30!
22 view cover	Marx: The Great Philosophers more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a distinctive new series from Routledge: "The Great Philosophers." Breaking down obstacles to understanding the ideas of history's greatest thinkers, these brief, accessible, and affordable volumes offer ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £29.11!
23 view cover	The Function of Criticism more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, form Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida, by Britain's most stylish critic. see all copies from £3.21! new only from £4.41! \| first editions
24 view cover	Dublin: A Cultural History more books like this by Siobhan Marie Kilfeather, Terry Eagleton (Foreword by) add to wishlist Europe's most westerly capital city was established by invaders and was for most of its history the locus of colonial administration, the engine room of foreign power, and a major site of indigenous resistance. From The Act of Union through nineteenth-century decline and into the early years of Irish independence it was a city identified with ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.20! \| first editions
25 view cover	Holy Terror more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist "Holy Terror" is a profound and timely investigation of the idea of terror, drawing upon political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to the modern day. Rather than add to the mounting pile of political studies of terrorism, Terry Eagleton offers here a metaphysics of terror with a serious ... see all copies from £7.11! new only from £9.44! \| first editions

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