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Culture by Terry Eagleton
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Category: Non-Fiction
One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our fore ...Show more
Humour by Terry Eagleton
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Category: Non-Fiction
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture--by one of its greatest exponentsWritten by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laug ...Show more
Materialism by Terry Eagleton
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Category: Non-Fiction
A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a fascinating school of philosophy, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful argument that materialism is at the center of tod ...Show more
Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton
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Category: Non-Fiction
The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this analysis, Ter ...Show more
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
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Category: Non-Fiction
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism-that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so ...Show more
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