Terry Eagleton: How to Disagree Without Being a Liberal Pluralist

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Description:	Most discussions of dialogue, consensus, disagreement and the like rest on an ideology of liberal pluralism. Terry Eagleton offers a critique of this ideology in general, and asks how agreement and disagreement appear in light of this. This event took place on Friday 24 February 2017 and is part of the VHI 2016-17 series on Dynamics of Dis/Agreement. For more details visit http://www.vhi.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/events

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Most discussions of dialogue, consensus, disagreement and the like rest on an ideology of liberal pluralism. Terry Eagleton offers a critique of this ideology in general, and asks how agreement and disagreement appear in light of this.

This event took place on Friday 24 February 2017 and is part of the VHI 2016-17 series on Dynamics of Dis/Agreement. For more details visit http://www.vhi.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/events


Created:	2017-03-03 11:04
Collection:	Von Hugel Institute
Publisher:	University of Cambridge
Copyright:	Von Hügel Institute
Language:	eng (English)
Keywords:	Pluralism; Liberalism; Disagreement; Cultural theory;


Abstract:	Professor Terry Eagleton FBA is an internationally celebrated literary scholar and cultural theorist, and currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. He was previously Thomas Wharton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester. He has published over forty books, including the best-selling 'Literary Theory: An Introduction' (Wiley- Blackwell, 1993), 'Ideology: An Introduction' (Verso, 1991), 'Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate' (Yale UP, 2010), and most recently 'Materialism' (Yale UP, 2017).

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Professor Terry Eagleton FBA is an internationally celebrated literary scholar and cultural theorist, and currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. He was previously Thomas Wharton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester. He has published over forty books, including the best-selling 'Literary Theory: An Introduction' (Wiley- Blackwell, 1993), 'Ideology: An Introduction' (Verso, 1991), 'Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate' (Yale UP, 2010), and most recently 'Materialism' (Yale UP, 2017).

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