Terry Eagleton Quotes about Culture

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A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a

A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

Terry Eagleton

Believe, Thinking, Culture

"Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.

Terry Eagleton

Men, Doe, Culture

"Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

Terry Eagleton

Thinking, Feelings, Culture

Terry Eagleton (2007). “How to Read a Poem”, p.106, John Wiley & Sons

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

Terry Eagleton

Ivory Tower, Towers, Culture

"Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

Terry Eagleton

Diversity, Unity, Culture

"Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.