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Terry Eagleton on Marxism as a Theodicy

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Big Ideas presents British literary and cultural theorist, Terry Eagleton. His lecture"Is Marxism a Theodicy?" was delivered at a conference on Historical Materialism at York University, on May 14, 2010

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  • I like Eagletons speeches about Marx, its a fresh wind!

    But I think Marx sees freedom has working for progressive in society, when you are the frontline of change, when you ride the waves of society you are free. Freedom is not "doing nothing" thats the liberal idea of freedom.

  • Hey cool! I was actually looking for his contribution to the Terry Lectures here, but I managed, completely by happenstance, to come across him giving a lecture at my own school! Too bad I wasn't a student there until the beginning of the next year!

  • Terry is just great. And I don't think he has lost his philosophical creativity in his recent works...

  • He has, admittedly, gone astray in recent years - most regrettably in his willful misreading of that most enigmatic of terms, 'postmodernism.' However, Eagleton enjoys the rare distinction of writing one of the most important books in philisophico-cultural studies of the last 50 years. 'The Ideology of the Aesthetic' is a magnificent achievement by any measure. Contentious, provocative, ironical and replete with a dialectical rigour that has been so conspicuously lacking in his more recent work.

  • @S2Cents So if you believe Marx was NOT generally correct you must be rich and working in spite of your mediocrity.

  • @Zoundsism999 So if you believe Marx was generally correct then you must be poor and jobless?

  • He is not a great leftist thinker, he is a magpie of ideas with a moralist core. A charlatan marxist. Avoid. (He's loaded with 3 houses and 5 jobs).

  • Terry Eagleton is one of Brecht's indispensable ones

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