Eagleton hopes to save Christianity from the Christians and Marxism from the Marxists One of the most fascinating,most original and prickliest works of philosophy to emerge from the post-9/11 era.
Paradoxes sparkle throughout this coruscatingly brilliant polemic. This is... a demolition job which is both logically devastating and a magnificently whirling philippic.
Terry Eagleton's Beason, Faith, and Revolution attacks the new atheism as a kind of secular counter-fundamentalism Better than any previous book of its kind.
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism--that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on--he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major crises, H/by Marx IFas Right is as urgent arid timely as it is brave and candid. Written with Eagleton's familiar wit, humor, and clarity,it will attract an audience far beyond the confines of academia.