An Interview with Terry Eagleton

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

It is funny to see that someone so afraid of theoretical "intoxications" 
refers to - of all people - Zizek, whom nobody else but Eagleton once 
called "Lacan's representative on earth" ...

Watch your step, this is evil French stuff! :-)

"TEXT --- the hardest drug of all." (Rainald Goetz)

On 08.06.2012 12:10, Michael Fonash wrote:
> Kai,
>
> "Nietzsche is a radical right-wing theorist...  they(Marx and
> Nietzsche) are brilliant re-writers of
> Hegel and not much else."
>
> Original?  I apologize if I made it sound as if this was my personal
> reading.  Thinkers well-read on both sides of the Western
> Tradition(Left and Right, Zizek and Steve Smith for example) are more
> than familiar with this and have been seeing it for more than 15-20
> years.  It is "known" by those who are able to weather the
> intoxicating storm of undergrad Marx and Nietsche.  Dangerously, some
> never weather the intoxicating -ism of Marx and the the revel of
> Nietzsche's intoxicating poetry.
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de>  wrote:
>> Nietzsche "not much else" but a "re-writer()" of Hegel?!
>>
>> OK ... I give you one for originality.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07.06.2012 18:00, Michael Fonash 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>
>>>   wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:06 PM, alice wellintown
>>>> <alicewellintown at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/an-interview-with-terry-eagleton/
>>>> http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300169430
>>>
>