Name: Why Marx was Right
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Author: Terry Eagleton
ISBN: 9780300231069

Type

Physical Book

Author

Terry Eagleton

Publisher

Yale University Press

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

280

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.0 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9780300231069

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "Why Marx was Right "

One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor. It's probably the only book that makes references to Tiger Woods and Mel Gibson along with Charles Fourier and Michel Foucault."--Michael Patrick Brady, PopMatters "Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks."--Dennis O'Brien, Christian Century In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism--that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on--he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major crises, Why Marx Was Right is as urgent and timely as it is brave and candid. Written with Eagleton's familiar wit, humor, and clarity, it will attract an audience far beyond the confines of academia.

Terry Eagleton

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Profesor de Literatura inglesa en la Lancaster University, de Teoría cultural en la National University of Ireland y profesor visitante en la University of Notre Dame. Se doctoró en el Trinity College de Cambridge, fue profesor en el Jesus College, en la Manchester University y en diferentes centros académicos de Oxford. Discípulo de Raymond Williams, Eagleton ha unido los estudios culturales con la teoría literaria, el marxismo y el psicoanálisis.

Ha publicado alrededor de cuarenta libros, entre los que destacan Ideología (1997), La idea de cultura(2001), El portero (2004), La estética como ideología (2006), Terror santo (2008), El sentido de la vida (2008), Sobre el mal (2010), Razón, fe y revolución(2012), y El acontecimiento de la literatura (2013).

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