Fungsi Kritik

Bagaimana mungkin bahwa kritik modern, yang lahir dari perjuangan melawan negara absolut, dapat direduksikan ke status sekarang sebagai bagian dari cabang hubungan massa industri sastra? Kegusaran Terry Eagleton tentang hal tersebut, membawanya untuk menelusuri arus balik dan strategi kritik literer dengan pemahaman yang sangat lincah.

The Gatekeeper : A Memoir

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 mix…

Reason, Faith, and Revolution : Reflections on the God Debate

Terry Eagleton’s witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the “superstitious” view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary accoun…

How to Read a Poem

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First Published

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4051-5140-5

Deskripsi Fisik

ix + 182 hlm.; 23 cm.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

808.1 EAG h

Marx and Freedom

Eagleton outlines the relatioship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx's thinking. He then gives a brilliant account of Marx's utopia: a place in which labour is automated, so that 'savouring a peach or enjoying a string quartet are aspects of our self-actualisation as much as building dams or chuning out coat-hangers.'

Culture

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 foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book, he explores how culture and our conceptualizations of it have evolved over the l…

The Ideology of The Aesthetic

The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in the work of Kant…