About this title: As heralded everywhere from NPR to the pages of the New York Times Magazine, a new era is underway in our colleges and universities: after a lengthy tenure, the dominance of postmodern theory has come to an end. In this timely and topical book, the legendary Terry Eagleton ("one of [our] best-known public intellectuals. "-Boston Globe) traces the rise and fall of these ideas from the 1960s through the 1990s, candidly assessing the resultant gains and losses. What's needed now, After Theory argues, is a return to the big questions and grand narratives. Today's global politics demand we pay ...
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2004-11-30
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2004-11-30
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2004
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780141015071ISBN:0141015071
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 240 pages. (240 pages) describes that cultural theory must start thinking ambitiously-not so that it can hand the west its legitimation, but so that it can seek to make sense of the grand narratives in which it is embroiled. (Paperback) read more
"As usual, Eagleton is lively and provocative. Even if you disagree with some or much of what he argues--and it's almost impossible not to--After Theory is a valuable read."
"Terry Eagleton tackles capitalism and postmodernism all the while positing some good ol' Marxism and even Aristotelian ethics and how it interacts with Marxism. His writing is humorous and light-hearted, readable for those not so savvy in terms of philosophy. He makes some questionable criticisms toward Derrida and Foucault but ultimately his judgments are spot on."
"Eagleton takes on the previously verboten topic of ethical living in day to day for politically progressive left wing people. Believing that the good life is more than material satisfaction, but something best defined by living a life that allows one to flourish in a society that allows others to fulfill themselves as well.
Eagleton is reacting against Post-Modern and relativist scorn of morality, ideology, and clear thinking, "grand narratives."
So too, does Eagleton think America is overrun with the cult of the individual, having gone through a set of values, America finds itself divided between the emphasis of the will and relgious fantacism, both used to find meaning in a world in existential crises. Finding meaning, becoming immortal in perpetuating the self, anything meaningless or reminding us of our mortal, meaningless life is seen as a threat, empty and the enemy.
Eagleton ends with an afterword telling the Americans who he feels are trapped amidst a sea of reaction and headed in to a bleak period to take heart, offering them the dedication."
"Don´t know if I should admit i´m reading this book or not. It´s good for an introduction into the work of critical literary theory, with some good ideas that i´m not up to criticizing right now."
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