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After Theory

By Terry Eagleton

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The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of thinkers like Althusser, Barthes and Derrida, has also moved beyond them. What kind of new, fresh thinkingContinue

The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of thinkers like Althusser, Barthes and Derrida, has also moved beyond them. What kind of new, fresh thinking does this new era demand? Eagleton concludes that cultural theory must start thinking ambitiously again - 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 now embroiled.

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  • What Terry did next...

    After Theory by Terry Eagleton 225pp, Allen Lane, £18.99 Being at once a leader and a rebel is a good trick. Mrs Thatcher managed it brilliantly, speaking as if she were a dissident in the government of which she was in fact head. The ordinary fudges ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Goodbye to All That

    After Theory, by Terry Eagleton… Anyone who served on the academic front of the culture wars in the closing decades of the twentieth century is likely to prick up his ears and experience a kind of mental salivation at this conjunction of author and t ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • eBook 240 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0141927887
  • ISBN-13: 9780141927886
  • Publisher: Penguin Adult
  • Pub date: Aug 26, 2004
  • Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
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