An Interview with Terry Eagleton

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/7/2012 9:40 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Even Marx can be 'right' with certain small-t truths. And he was.
> Like anyone or stopped clocks too.

I first heard that head-standing bit in high school sociology class.  
The teacher being a Thomist considered Marx's over emphasis on the 
material as plain wrong. Terry Eagleton plays Thomist a little in his 
new book--for the sake of explication--his Catholic upbringing he sez.  
Thomas was convinced that ideas are Real and Eagleton wants to show that 
Literature is kind of Real too. He's mad at the postmodernists. I'm 
assuming--haven't got far in the book and may never.

By the way, can't the dialectic method be applied to both universals and 
particulars?

P
>
> *From:* Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
> *To:* Michael Fonash <mff8785 at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>; alice wellintown 
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 7, 2012 12:20 PM
> *Subject:* Re: An Interview with Terry Eagleton
>
> Marx even called himself a left Hegelian.  He wasn't even shy about 
> the wholesale theft.  I've always wondered about how you could take 
> somebody else's idea apply it elsewhere, turn it on its head whatever, 
> and possibly expect it to be true, or to suggest it might be true.
>
> "Well look mate, that's Hegel."
> "Yes but now it's right."
>
> Is Nietzsche right wing?  He's anti-nationalist.  Anti-democracy. 
>  Neither of those two things place a person on the right.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Michael Fonash <mff8785 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mff8785 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am still dumbfounded as to how the many vociferous, outspoken
>     Profs/Phd's(certainly not all) can not see how Marx is a radical
>     left-wing theorist as Nietzsche is a radical right-wing theorist:
>     neither being anywhere near "truth" or an effective, sustainable
>     theory of Modern gov't.  Accurately, they are brilliant re-writers of
>     Hegel and not much else.  The title "Marx is Right" is just...
>     foolish and silly.
>
>     On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Dave Monroe
>     <against.the.dave at gmail.com <mailto:against.the.dave at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>     > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:06 PM, alice wellintown
>     > <alicewellintown at gmail.com <mailto:alicewellintown at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >> http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/an-interview-with-terry-eagleton/
>     >
>     > http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300169430
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