Quote by Terry Eagleton
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

Other quotes by Terry Eagleton

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties. – Terry Eagleton

Category:
History
Read Quote

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. – Terry Eagleton

Category:
Age
Read Quote

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Modern, Modernism
category

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. – Edgar Z. Friedenberg

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. – Guy Debord

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. – Alexander Herzen

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie. – R. D. Laing

Random Quotes

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. – Igor Stravinsky

Category:
Family

Fear is stupid. So are regrets. – Marilyn Monroe

Category:
Fear

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. – Friedrich Schiller

Category:
power

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isnt necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. – Karen Armstrong

Category:
Religion