Terry Eagleton

**Terence Francis Eagleton** (Salford, 22. 2. 1943. – ), britanski književni kritičar i teoretičar, filozof, pisac i javni intelektualac. Rođen je u radničkoj katoličkoj porodici irskog porijekla, izvorno iz Galwayja. Studirao je na koledžima Trinity i Jesus Univerziteta u Cambridgeu gdje mu je jedan od profesora bio i Raymond Williams. Akademsku karijeru je započeo kao predavač na Univerzitetu u Oxfordu odnosno koledžima Wadham (1969–1989), Linacre (1989–1993) i St Catherine's. Godine 2001. prebacio se na Univerzitet u Manchesteru gdje je radio sedam godina, a kasnije je predavao i na Univerzitetu u Lancasteru, Nacionalnom irskom univerzitetu, te Univerzitetu Notre Dame. Kao vandredni predavač radio je i na Cornellu, Dukeu, Iowi, Melbourneu, dublinskom Trinityju i Yaleu. Autor je više od 40 knjiga među kojima su najpoznatije *Književna teorija: Uvod* (, 1983), *Ideologija estetike* (, 1990) i *Iluzije postmodernizma* (, 1996). Eagleton je socijalist i marksist, u više navrata branio je Slavoja Žižeka i pomogao da se njegov rad popularizira u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu.

## Opus

* *The New Left Church* (1966), Sheed and Ward
* *Shakespeare and Society; critical studies in Shakespearean drama* (1967), Schocken Books, 
* *Exiles And Émigrés: Studies in Modern Literature* (1970), Schocken Books, 
* *The Body as Language: outline of a new left theology* (1970), Sheed and Ward, 
* *Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës* (1975), Barnes & Noble, 
* *Criticism & ideology: a study in Marxist literary theory* (1976), Verso, 
* *Marxism and Literary Criticism* (1976), University of California Press, 
* *Walter Benjamin, or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism* (1981), Verso, NLB; Schocken Books, 
* *The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality, and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson* (1982), University of Minnesota Press, 
* *Literary Theory: An Introduction* (1983), University of Minnesota Press, 
* *The Function of Criticism: from the spectator to post-structuralism* (1984), Verso, 
* *Saints and Scholars* (1987), Verso, 
* *Saint Oscar* (1989), Field Day, 
* *Raymond Williams: Critical Perspectives* (ur., 1989), Northeastern University Press, 
* *The Significance of Theory* (1989), Blackwell, 
* *The Ideology of the Aesthetic* (1990), Blackwell, 
* *Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature* (1990), University of Minnesota Press, 
* *Ideology: An Introduction* (1991), Verso, 
* *Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script, The Derek Jarman Film* (1993), BFI, 
* *Literary Theory* (1996), University of Minnesota Press, 
* *The Illusions of Postmodernism* (1996), Blackwell, 
* *Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: studies in Irish culture* (1996), Verso, 
* *Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture* (1998), University of Notre Dame Press, 
* *Marx* (1999), Routledge, 
* *The Truth about the Irish* (1999), St. Martin's Griffin, 
* *The Idea of Culture* (2000), Blackwell, 
* *The Gatekeeper: A Memoir* (2002), St. Martin's Press, 
* *Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic* (2002), Blackwell, 
* *After Theory* (2003), Basic Books, 
* *Figures of dissent: Reviewing Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others* (2003), Verso, 
* *The English Novel: An Introduction* (2005), Blackwell, 
* *Holy Terror* (2005), Oxford University Press, 
* *The Meaning of Life* (2007), Oxford University Press, 
* *How to Read a Poem* (2007), Blackwell, 
* *Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics* (2008), Wiley-Blackwell, 
* *Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate* (2009), Yale University Press, 
* *On Evil* (2010), Yale University Press, 
* *Why Marx Was Right* (2011), Yale University Press, 
* *The Event of Literature* (2012), Yale University Press, 
* *How to Read Literature* (2013), Yale University Press, 
* *Culture and the Death of God* (2014), Yale University Press, 
* *Hope without Optimism* (2015), University of Virginia Press, 

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## Vanjske veze

*  Terry Eagleton, Lancaster University