As a teenager, Eagleton’s interests turned to leftist political and social activism. He attended Catholic schools, serving as an altar boy at a local Carmelite convent where, according to his memoir, he escorted novice nuns to take their vows. "As a Catholic, I was quite an outsider in Britain when we moved to Dublin, it was just the opposite," he notes.
He grew up in a working class family in a Catholic community near Manchester. “ were relying on simplistic caricatures of Christianity that simply viewed religion and fundamentalist religion as the same thing."Įagleton didn't come suddenly to this interest in religion. "I know enough about theology and Christianity to know these two were talking out of the backs of their necks,” Eagleton says. In 2009, he published a direct hit on these two thinkers-whom he affectionately refers to as "Ditchkins"-in Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (Yale).
Lately, though, Eagleton has turned his attention to Christianity and its critics, especially the so-called New Atheists, particularly his late friend Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. of Minnesota, 1983 2008), has sold more than 750,000 copies and introduced generations of graduate students in English to the mysteries of deconstruction and post-structuralism. His best-known book, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Univ. Martin's, 2002), and politics ( Why Marx was Right, Yale, 2011). Martin's, 2001), memoir ( The Gatekeeper, St. With good reason: the pre-eminent cultural critic and distinguished professor of literature at the University of Lancaster in England has published more than 40 books, including fiction ( Saints and Scholars, Verso, 1987), cultural theory ( The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Blackwell, 1991), history ( The Truth about the Irish, St. "They simply don't know where to put me," he says. By his own admission, Terry Eagleton is a bookseller's nightmare.
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