“The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.”

—  Terry Eagleton

Conclusion: political Criticism, p. 174
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)

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