After Theory

By: Terry Eagleton

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Paperback | 26 August 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Today the barriers between high and low culture have crumbled and academics study soap operas as well as sonnets. But does our obsession with 'culture' mean we have overlooked the things that really matter? Can we still be politically engaged in today's free-wheeling, postmodern, consumer era? Terry Eagleton's acclaimed Literary Theory established him as one of the leading cultural theorists of the Left. Now, he argues, the age of theory is over. It is time to urgently re-engage with the essential truths that postmodernism has denied - love, evil, death, morality, metaphysics, religion and revolution - as they matter today more than ever.

Industry Reviews

'Showily, and wittily, Eagleton yearns for a species of salvation or transcendence from cultural theories' Prospect

'...An original thinker whose passion and zest for life, and writing, remain, after years in the famously desiccating groves of academe, undiminished' the Independent Magazine

'After Theory's huge achievement is to show just how formidable a presence the Marxist cultural critic can be, even here in the thronged and dismaying universe of Bush, Blair, Derrida and the celebrated M Jean Baudrilland' Independent on Sunday

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