Bücher von Terry Eagleton

A brilliant and lucid guide to this most elusive of concepts.

Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, The Gatekeeper is Terry Eagleton's memoirs, his deep-etched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons. He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way. The Gatekeeper mixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewer-sharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a double-edged portrait of the intellectual as a young man.

If you're looking for a field guide to leprechauns, The Truth About the Irish is not the book for you. But if you can handle a frank and funny look into the minds and hearts of Irish people, you've been touched by that fabled Irish luck. Covering all things Irish from Blarney to Yeats, renowned literary and cultural critic Terry Eagleton separates the myths from the reality with his priceless blend of sidesplitting humor, caustic commentary, and the honest lowdown on the beloved and bewildering country of Ireland.

DER KOMMUNISMUS IST TOT, DER KAPITALISMUS IST KRANK - ES LEBE KARL MARX! Der katholische Marxist Terry Eagleton bricht eine Lanze für Karl Marx. Streit- bar, originell und mit britischem Humor widerlegt er zentrale Argumente gegen den Marxismus, wie 'Wir leben doch längst in einer klassenlosen Gesellschaft' oder 'Der Marxismus beraubt die Menschen ihrer Freiheit'. Eagleton macht klar: Karl Marx ist heute aktueller denn je. 'Unwiderstehlich.' The Scotsman 'Eagleton ist ein begnadeter Polemiker und Stilist.' DIE ZEIT

In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins with a firm rejection of the role of optimism in life's course. Like its close relative, pessimism, it is more a system of rationalization than a reliable lens on reality, reflecting the cast of one's temperament in place of true discernment. Eagleton turns then to hope, probing the meaning of this familiar but elusive word: Is it an emotion? How does it differ from desire? Does it fetishize the future? Finally, Eagleton broaches a new concept of tragic hope, in which this old virtue represents a strength that remains even after devastating loss has been confronted.In a wide-ranging discussion that encompasses Shakespeare's Lear, Kierkegaard on despair, Aquinas, Wittgenstein, St. Augustine, Kant, Walter Benjamin's theory of history, and a long consideration of the prominent philosopher of hope, Ernst Bloch, Eagleton displays his masterful and highly creative fluency in literature, philosophy, theology, and political theory. Hope without Optimism is full of the customary wit and lucidity of this writer whose reputation rests not only on his pathbreaking ideas but on his ability to engage the reader in the urgent issues of life. Page-Barbour Lectures

Was ist Literatur? , fragt das mittlerweile legendare Einleitungskapitel dieses Bandes. Pointiert und kritisch-souveran zugleich fuhrt Eagleton an erste literaturtheoretische Fragen heran. Ebenso anschaulich erlautert der Autor in den weiteren Kapiteln die Grundlagen und Methoden der zentralen Ansatze der Literaturtheorie. Die 5. Auflage des erfolgreichen Buches enthalt ein neues Vorwort Eagletons zur literaturtheoretischen Entwicklung der letzten 25 Jahre. Fur die Annaherung an einen komplexen Stoff ohne Scheu und Verstandnisschwierigkeiten.