Quotes by : Terry Eagleton

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

The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead,....

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret....

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different....

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood....

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there....