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Terry Eagleton

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Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton FBA (born 22 February 1943) is a British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual. [1]

86 relations: Alex Niven, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, BP, British National Party, Carmelites, Cause célèbre, Christopher Hitchens, Contemporary philosophy, Continental philosophy, County Borough of Salford, County Galway, Culture theory, David Lodge (author), De La Salle Brothers, Deconstruction, Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, Elizabeth Jane Howard, F. R. Leavis, Fellow of the British Academy, Gifford Lectures, Ginny Dougary, Herbert McCabe, Ian Birchall, Intellectual, Irish Catholics, Irish republicanism, Islamism, Jacques Lacan, Jesus College, Cambridge, John Edward Taylor, Karl Marx, Kingsley Amis, Klaus Rohde, Lancaster University, Linacre College, Oxford, Literary criticism, Literary theory, London Review of Books, Louis Althusser, MailOnline, Manchester United F.C., Martin Amis, Mechanics' Institute, Manchester, New Atheism, New Left Review, New Statesman, Newington Green Unitarian Church, News from Nowhere: Journal of the Oxford English Faculty Opposition, Northern Ireland, Open University, ..., Opium of the people, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar Wilde, Oxford English Limited, Pendleton, Greater Manchester, Postmodernism, Raymond Williams, Richard Dawkins, Richard Price, Slant (journal), Socialist Workers Party (UK), St Catherine's College, Oxford, Straw man, Structuralism, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Daily Telegraph, The God Delusion, The Guardian, The Independent, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Observer, Thomas Warton, Trinity College, Cambridge, Ulster University, University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, University of Notre Dame, University of Oxford, Utopia, Wadham College, Oxford, Western philosophy, William Deresiewicz, Workers' Socialist League, Yale University, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Expand index (36 more) »

Alex Niven

Alex Niven (born 18 February 1984, Hexham, Northumberland, UK) is a writer, poet, editor, and former musician.

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Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, also callled Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament or the Rite of Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction, is a devotional ceremony, celebrated especially in the Roman Catholic Church, but also in some other Christian traditions such as Anglo-Catholicism, whereby a bishop, priest, or a deacon blesses the congregation with the Eucharist at the end of a period of adoration.

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BP

BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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British National Party

The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right and fascist political party in the United Kingdom.

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Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel or Carmelites (sometimes simply Carmel by synecdoche; Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo) is a Roman Catholic religious order founded, probably in the 12th century, on Mount Carmel in the Crusader States, hence the name Carmelites.

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Cause célèbre

A cause célèbre (famous case; plural causes célèbres) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate.

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist.

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Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

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Continental philosophy

Continental philosophy is a set of 19th- and 20th-century philosophical traditions from mainland Europe.

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County Borough of Salford

Salford was, from 1844 to 1974, a local government district in the northwest of England, coterminate with Salford.

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County Galway

County Galway (Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland.

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Culture theory

Culture theory is the branch of comparative anthropology and semiotics (not to be confused with cultural sociology or cultural studies) that seeks to define the heuristic concept of culture in operational and/or scientific terms.

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David Lodge (author)

David John Lodge CBE (born 28 January 1935) is an English author and literary critic.

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De La Salle Brothers

The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (also known as the Christian Brothers, the Lasallian Brothers, the French Christian Brothers, or the De La Salle Brothers; Frères des écoles chrétiennes; Fratres Scholarum Christianarum) is a Catholic religious teaching congregation, founded in France by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651–1719), and now based in Rome.

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Deconstruction

Deconstruction is a critique of the relationship between text and meaning originated by the philosopher Jacques Derrida.

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Dwight H. Terry Lectureship

The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, also known as the Terry Lectures, was established at Yale University in 1905 by a gift from Dwight H. Terry of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE, FRSL (26 March 1923 – 2 January 2014), was an English novelist, author of 12 novels including the best-selling series The Cazalet Chronicles.

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F. R. Leavis

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Fellow of the British Academy

Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

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Gifford Lectures

The Gifford Lectures are an annual series of lectures which were established by the will of Adam Lord Gifford (died 1887).

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Ginny Dougary

Ginny Dougary (born October 17, 1956) is a British interviewer and feature writer for The Times.

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Herbert McCabe

Herbert John Ignatius McCabe, OP (2 August 192628 June 2001) was an English-born Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher, who was born in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

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Ian Birchall

Ian Birchall (born 1939) is a British Marxist historian and translator, a former member of the Socialist Workers Party and author of numerous articles and books, particularly relating to the French Left.

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Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about society and proposes solutions for its normative problems.

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Irish Catholics

Irish Catholics are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland that are both Catholic and Irish.

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Irish republicanism

Irish republicanism (poblachtánachas Éireannach) is an ideology based on the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.

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Islamism

Islamism is a concept whose meaning has been debated in both public and academic contexts.

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Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud".

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Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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John Edward Taylor

John Edward Taylor (11 September 1791 – 6 January 1844) was an English business tycoon, editor and publisher, who was the founder of the Manchester Guardian newspaper in 1821, which was renamed in 1959 The Guardian.

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Karl Marx

Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.

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Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.

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Klaus Rohde

Klaus Rohde (born 1932 in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany) is a German biologist at the University of New England (UNE), Australia, known particularly for his work on marine parasitology, evolutionary ecology/zoogeography, and phylogeny/ultrastructure of lower invertebrates.

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Lancaster University

Lancaster University, also officially known as the University of Lancaster, is a public research university in the City of Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

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Linacre College, Oxford

Linacre College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the UK whose members comprise approximately 50 fellows and 500 postgraduate students.

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Literary criticism

Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Literary theory

Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature.

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London Review of Books

The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British journal of literary essays.

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Louis Althusser

Louis Pierre Althusser (16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher.

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MailOnline

MailOnline (also known as dailymail.co.uk) is the website of the Daily Mail, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, and of its sister paper The Mail on Sunday.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Martin Amis

Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist and memoirist.

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Mechanics' Institute, Manchester

The Mechanics' Institute, 103 Princess Street, Manchester, is notable as the building in which three significant British institutions were founded: the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).

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New Atheism

New Atheism is a term coined in 2006 by the agnostic journalist Gary Wolf to describe the positions promoted by some atheists of the twenty-first century.

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New Left Review

The New Left Review is a bimonthly political academic journal covering world politics, economy, and culture which was established in 1960.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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Newington Green Unitarian Church

Newington Green Unitarian Church (NGUC) in north London is one of England's oldest Unitarian churches.

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News from Nowhere: Journal of the Oxford English Faculty Opposition

News from Nowhere was the journal of Oxford English Limited (OEL), a left-wing group of students and dons who sought progressive reforms to the Oxford University English Faculty syllabus between 1982 and 1992.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.

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Opium of the people

"Religion is the opium of the people" is one of the most frequently paraphrased statements of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx.

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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Oxford English Limited

Oxford English Limited (OEL) was a socialist-feminist group of undergraduate and postgraduate students campaigning for progressive reforms in the Oxford University English Faculty between 1982 and 1992.

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Pendleton, Greater Manchester

Pendleton is an inner city area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, about from Manchester city centre.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Raymond Williams

Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh Marxist theorist, academic, novelist and critic.

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Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.

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Richard Price

Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and mathematician.

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Slant (journal)

Slant was a Catholic magazine associated with the University of Cambridge and the Dominican Order during the 1960s, and of the group associated with this magazine.

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Socialist Workers Party (UK)

The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a far-left political party in Britain.

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St Catherine's College, Oxford

St Catherine's College (often called Catz by college members) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Straw man

A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.

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Structuralism

In sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, structuralism is the methodology that implies elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and Student Affairs professionals (staff members and administrators).

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The God Delusion

The God Delusion is a 2006 best-selling non-fiction book by English biologist Richard Dawkins, a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford and former holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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Thomas Warton

Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Ulster University

Ulster University (Ollscoil Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr Universitie or Ulstèr Varsitie), officially the University of Ulster, is a multi-campus public university located in Northern Ireland.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.

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University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame or ND) is a private, non-profit Catholic research university in the community of Notre Dame, Indiana, near the city of South Bend, in the United States.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Utopia

A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.

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Wadham College, Oxford

Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Western philosophy

Western philosophy is the philosophical thought and work of the Western world.

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William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz is an American author, essayist, and literary critic.

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Workers' Socialist League

The Workers Socialist League (WSL) was a Trotskyist group in Britain.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (née Damji; born 10 December 1949) is a British journalist and author, who describes herself as "a leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Muslim, part-Pakistani".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Eagleton

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