Terry Eagleton: Quotes about reason

Terry Eagleton is British writer, academic and educator. Explore interesting quotes on sense.

Terry Eagleton: 114 quotes 2 likes

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the ‘imaginary’ level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”

Terry Eagleton

(2011) Literary Theory: An Introduction. p. 147
2010s

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“It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.”

Terry Eagleton

1990s, Ideology (1991)

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“Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.”

Terry Eagleton

Afterword, p. 190
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)

Understanding , Sense , Night

“What perished in the Soviet Union was Marxist only in the sense that the Inquisition was Christian”

Terry Eagleton

2000s, Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition Marxism and Literary Theory (2002)

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“The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.”

Terry Eagleton

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 5, p. 115

History , Sense , Time

“Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.”

Terry Eagleton

Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 138

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