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“Deconstruction… insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”

Terry Eagleton

Frère Jacques: The Politics of Deconstruction, ch. 6, Against the Grain (1984)
1980s

“All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.”

Terry Eagleton

Источник: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 48

“Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.”

Terry Eagleton

Introduction: What is Literature?, p. 2
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Контексте: Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

“Reading is not a straightforward linear movement,”

Terry Eagleton

Источник: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 67 (See also: Northrop Frye)
Контексте: Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.

“It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.”

Terry Eagleton

Источник: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 65

“The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.”

Terry Eagleton

Источник: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 9, p. 197

“The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.”

Terry Eagleton

Источник: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 70

“It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.”

Terry Eagleton

Источник: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 114

“Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of… revolutionary avant-gardism.”

Terry Eagleton

Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism, ch. 9 (1985)
1980s

“There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.”

Terry Eagleton

Источник: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 100