Quotes by : Terry Eagleton

[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits....

Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical....

Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous,....

We like to think of individuals as unique. Yet if this is true of everyone, then we all share the same....

In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical....

One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist....

Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though....

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane....

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of....