Terry Eagleton on Frederic Jameson’s final book.

[Jazzrook]

Terry Eagleton’s illuminating review of Fredric Jameson’s final book on post-war French thought:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n19/terry-eagleton/the-excitement-of-the-stuff

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

"A new attention to ambiguity and indeterminacy proved particularly attractive to women theorists, struggling to get a foothold in a field of young men anxiously comparing the length of their sentences".

Indeed - one knows the problem all too well!

[Jazzrook]

"A new attention to ambiguity and indeterminacy proved particularly attractive to women theorists, struggling to get a foothold in a field of young men anxiously comparing the length of their sentences".

Indeed - one knows the problem all too well!

👍😎

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

👍😎

JR

(How did you do that JR?)

[Jazzrook]

(How did you do that JR?)

Something strange happened there, S_A.
Somehow my emojis(same as yours!) got replaced by question marks.

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Something strange happened there, S_A.
Somehow my emojis(same as yours!) got replaced by question marks.

JR

Someone in the security services muscling in by sending a signal they've got eyes on the forum is my only explanation, implausible that it would seem that anybody would have Terry Eagleton up on their shopping list of influences dangerous to the survival of civilization - he and his subject matter would probably be beyond the efforts let alone understanding capabilities of most of them!

There's probably some simple technical explanation for what happened.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Terry Eagleton does have a "neat" turn of phrase. I was reading his explanation of the difference between hope and optimism and his line, "the only way any God was not to fail was by not turning up". One for me at least to use.

[Jazzrook]

“Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology”. From Eagleton’s review of Dawkins’ ‘The God Delusion’.

JR

[Mandryka]

“Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology”. From Eagleton’s review of Dawkins’ ‘The God Delusion’.

JR

Very unfair review, that.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n20/terry-eagleton/lunging-flailing-mispunching

[Serial_Apologist]

Very unfair review, that.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n20/terry-eagleton/lunging-flailing-mispunching

I'd only read one of their articles, I think, and they tell me I've reached my limit and block the article unless I subscribe!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I'd only read one of their articles, I think, and they tell me I've reached my limit and block the article unless I subscribe!

They do pretty good subscription deals if you shop around for their offers. A friend and I alternate annual subscriptions, so one year I get the main sub and she gets a free gift sub, then vice versa. Plus we both get all the archive. I only really want it for the political and economic stuff, but the book reviews are usually good and the letters page is often unconsciously funny. Serious arguments over the colour of the leaves outside Pasternak's house in autumn a "favourite"!

[Serial_Apologist]

They do pretty good subscription deals if you shop around for their offers. A friend and I alternate annual subscriptions, so one year I get the main sub and she gets a free gift sub, then vice versa. Plus we both get all the archive. I only really want it for the political and economic stuff, but the book reviews are usually good and the letters page is often unconsciously funny. Serious arguments over the colour of the leaves outside Pasternak's house in autumn a "favourite"!

Thanks!