It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
Terry EagletonYou can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
Terry EagletonWorks of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.
Terry EagletonPostmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
Terry EagletonThe role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.
Terry Eagleton