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The Gatekeeper
An Oxford scholar and author of The Truth About the Irish candidly recounts his experiences as an impoverished youth, a convent gatekeeper, a Catholic in Protestant England, a …
The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction
'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 …
How to read literature
A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure? What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the …
Materialism
A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating …
Marxism and Literary Criticism
Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our …
How to Read a Poem
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 …
Figures of Dissent
Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontës, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer - Terry Eagleton's achievements are …
The Great Philosophers: Marx
'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' Karl MarxFor Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging …
Varför Marx hade rätt
I denna konfrontatoriska och djärva bok tar Terry Eagleton strid med föreställningen om att marxismen är död och begraven. Genom att analysera tio vanliga invändningar mot …