What did Terry Eagleton mean by: Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. Terry Eagleton Literary Critic · United Kingdom Copy
+ Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Terry Eagleton, Position, Radicalism, Tradition, 0 Terry Eagleton Literary Critic · United Kingdom
+ Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Terry Eagleton, Longing, Nostalgia, Pursuit, 0 Terry Eagleton Literary Critic · United Kingdom
+ Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Terry Eagleton, Erasure, Legacy, Revolution, 0 Terry Eagleton Literary Critic · United Kingdom
+ There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Terry Eagleton, Defiance, Humanity, Power., 0 Terry Eagleton Literary Critic · United Kingdom
+ The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Terry Eagleton, Illusion, Perception, Reality, 0 Terry Eagleton Literary Critic · United Kingdom
+ When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Terry Eagleton, Emphasis, 0 Terry Eagleton Literary Critic · United Kingdom
+ You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. Read explanation Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Terry Eagleton, Capitalism, Critique, System, 0 Terry Eagleton Literary Critic · United Kingdom
+ If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Terry Eagleton, Discontent, Literature, Revolution, 0 Terry Eagleton Literary Critic · United Kingdom
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
