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  1. #WritersCoffeeClub 20 Aug - Name something unexpected you had to learn for a work.

    "Some texts are born literary, some achieve literariness, and some have literariness thrust upon them.
    There is no 'essence' of literature whatsoever.
    Literature, in the sense of a set of works of assured and unalterable value, distinguished by certain shared inherent properties, does not exist."

    #TerryEagleton #LiteraryTheory

  2. "What supplies meaningfulness to my experience for Husserl is not language but the act of perceiving particular phenomena as universals - an act which is supposed to occur independently of language itself. For Husserl, in other words, meaning is something which pre-dates language: language is no more than a secondary activity which gives names to meanings I somehow already possess."

    Literary Theory
    #TerryEagleton #Phenomenology

  3. "If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur 'Thou still unravished bride of quietness,' then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary. I know this because the texture, rhythm and resonance of your words are in excess of their abstractable meaning - or, as the linguists might more technically put it, there is a disproportion between the signifiers and the signifieds."

    𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺
    - Terry Eagleton

    #Literature
    #TerryEagleton

  4. The cover of a recent Dutch translation of #TerryEagleton's "Why #Marx was right" features a man who is obviously neither Eagleton, nor Marx

  5. "For Marx, socialism is the point where we begin collectively to determine our own destines. Is it democracy taken with full seriousness, rather than democracy as (for the most part) a political charade."
    —from 'Why Marx Was Right' by Terry Eagleton

    I think what we (our society) tend to believe is democracy is not what it claims. In fact, I'm convinced most people would be shocked to experience true democracy as it ought to be.
    #Marx #Socialism #Democracy #politics #TerryEagleton #quote