Terry Eagleton Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

  Terry Eagleton

  People, Political, Everyday

  "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

• We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Reflection, Self

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

• A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

  Terry Eagleton

  Believe, Thinking, Culture

  "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

• It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

  Terry Eagleton

  Diversity, Unity, Culture

  "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

• The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

  Terry Eagleton

  Struggle, Heart, Political

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

• Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

  Terry Eagleton

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Culture

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

• The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

  Terry Eagleton

  Culture, Frontiers

  "Leveson inquiry: the frontiers of privacy" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

• Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Men, Doe, Culture

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

• Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

  Terry Eagleton

  Thinking, Feelings, Culture

  Terry Eagleton (2007). “How to Read a Poem”, p.106, John Wiley & Sons

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