Britain’s Terry Eagleton, philosopher, Marxist literary critic and author offers an entertaining review of two current books on ID politics:
“The only good reason for being an activist is to get to the point where you no longer need to be. But that can’t be achieved by ignoring the reality of identity here and now. You need to feel your identity in order to be rid of it.” TE
here is a review of Eagleton’s most recent book, Humour, by author and philosopher, Kieran Setiya
“It’s frustrating to be met with such balanced judgment: one looks to Eagleton for provocation and polemic. He is famous for his takedowns of postmodernism, on one front, and the “new atheists,” on the other. This book is more good-humored, and so it is more difficult to find the crux. What is most intriguing in Humour, I think, is not the setup or the punch line, the beginning or the end, but the tentative theory of humor in the middle; and even there, what is most intriguing is what kind of theory it is meant to be.” KS