“If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.” IfsWayWritingPastMovingMeetingsMoving ForwardBackwardsRecent Past Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.” WayKindMomentsLanguageLevelsRevolutionWarmPostsThat MomentLibertarianismTheoreticalAftermathHangoverUprisingEuphoricStructuralism Author:Terry Eagleton
“Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.” ThinkingWayMatterFeelingsFormCultureParticularAppropriateWay Of Thinking Book:How to Read a Poem Source: How to Read a Poem
“The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.” WayPlayFactsLiteratureCommonMistakeNovelStudentsAccountsSettingSettingsSoilErosionNebraskaIncidenceSoil Erosion Book:How to Read Literature Source: How to Read Literature
“Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that way.” WayUsedFetishTotemsYahweh Author:Terry Eagleton
“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.” WayHumansActionPastBeing TrueFeaturesPeculiarEraseFamineTreatiesViennaHuman ActionsGreat Irish Author:Terry Eagleton
“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.” IfsMenWayShouldLastsYoungModernAdultsYoung AdultEducationalErasCapabilityClassroomDistinctiveTheoristsGreat EducationalModern Era Author:Terry Eagleton
“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.” PeopleWayEvilGoalAchieveDeedsCommitEvil ThingsIndigo Book:On Evil Source: On Evil
“A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.” ThinkingWayBelieveCultureNextCommonProjectsFairnessGodlinessCommon Culture Author:Terry Eagleton
