Terry Eagleton: "The Death of Criticism?"

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Published 2010-04-09
One of Britains most influential literary critics, Terry Eagleton is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. In addition to his widely known "Literary Theory: An Introduction", Professor Eagleton is the author of over forty books, including "The Ideology of the Aesthetic", and "The Illusions of Postmodernism". Part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities' Forum on the Humanities and the Public World.
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  • @wildvenisson
    "quantum physicists work on entities that may or may not exist, there seems to be some doubt about the matter"- Terry Eagleton. Brilliant pun and turn of phrase.
  • @Ericwest1000
    Much gratitude to you for hosting Terry Eagleton. What a charming mind!
  • @NAVINIDU
    Terry Eagleton is simply excellent at projecting western culture and literature with the great sense humour.
  • @Mastertherion1
    É possivel postarem esse video com legendas em português??
  • @magaliroy-fequiere792
    Eagleton is a very great teacher.  I have read four of his books carefully and learned a lot. He understands Western culture and philosophy particularly well.  Thank you, Terry, for a life of dedication to critical thinking.  The viewer's comments here are shallow and off the mark.  
  • @jameskuolou3126
    The government gives us housing laws, roads,fire brigades, police, medicare, social security food monitoring, product monitoring, labor laws, weekends, minimun wage, auto safety laws, clean water, sewage, and thousands more, all of which save lives. I come from a country where the government doesn't provide those things. And thousands of people die every day as a result. Three cheers for economic freedom! Are Americans so spoiled that they don't see how lucky they are to have social insurance?
  • @uranrising
    Literary students can't say "The poem's exuberant tone is at odds with its shambling syntax." [c.35.53] That's the kind of thing arts citicism generally should be like.
  • @tattoofthesun
    At first I was going to fast forward and skip around, but then I realized that everything he said is imaginative and solid solid substance like a great professor
  • @traccan
    I love how he inserts his little asides lecturing the Americans about the history of their political follies and their holes in historical knowledge :)
  • @FreekinEkin2
    Wow. No commenters seem willing to engage him. All commenters seem willing to attack him. What an antidemocratic time we live in.
  • @drwajedkhanpathan2480
    Really he is one of the best critics of the literary world. I learned so many things from his literary works. Today I learned one more thing from him that how a man can enjoy a glass water as a cup of tea.
  • @niriop
    Saw him speak speak at Lancaster--always a marvelous orator and thinker, even when I disagree with him.
  • @lukaskoube
    "private companies usually charge loads more" yes, bc public education is doing so well. oh yeah, and the military definitely doesnt waste money. it isnt about what is being charged, the state does not charge you, it takes your money and does what it wants. if a company doesnt serve the food it promised, they go out of business. if the state reneges on a promise, they collect more taxes. there is no incentive for quality. if monopolies raise prices, a state monopoly only gets worse.
  • @sattarabus
    Terry is a fiercely independent wit. His style is marked by a scintillating marriage of matter and manner.He eschews the turgidity of pedantic pedagogues of the Homi Bhabha cachet.