The 5th Public Lecture in Memory of Kosmas Psychopaidis: Terry Eagleton

The 2008-9 rendition of UADPhilEcon's Annual Public Lecture on Economics and Philosophy in Honour of Kosmas Psychopaidis is the fifth in an impressive line-up of distinguished previous lecturers: Bob Sugden (2005), Maurice Godelier (2006) and Axel Leijonhufvud (2007). and Geoffrey Brennan (2008)

UADPhilEcon proudly announces this year's lecture which is co-sponsored by The Sakis Karagiorgas Foundation and the British Council:

THE 2008-9 LECTURE WILL BE DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR TERRY EAGLETON

Theme: THE MEANING OF LIFE

Place and time: 1st December 2008, 19.30, in the Dracopoulos Amphitheatre at the Main (Old) University Building on Panepistemiou Street

UADPhilEcon, in association with The Sakis Karagiorgas Foundation, the Greek Trades Union Confederation, and the British Council, is privileged to be in a position to announce Terry Eagleton as our 5th presenter of the Annual Public Lecture in Memory of Kosmas Psychopaidis.

UADPhilEcon’s biographical notes on Terry Eagleton (by Yanis Varoufakis):

Terrence Francis Eagleton was born on 22 February 1943 in Salford, Manchester.

In his memoir, Gatekeeper (2001), he tells us, his readers, that, while at primary school, asthma kept him frequently away from class. Later he attended a Catholic grammar school run by the De La Salle brotherhood whom he must have irked intensely by joining the… Stockport young socialists at age 15
Read English (MA, PhD) at Trinity College, Cambridge
During 1964-69 he was Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge
In 1968 he moved to that ‘other’ place, Oxford University, where he served as Tutorial Fellow at Wadham College, until 1989
In 1989 he was elected Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford, and lectured on critical theory
In 1991 he scaled the heights of academia by being appointed Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. A year later he was also elected Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford
In 2001 he moved to Manchester where he became John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester University. Recently he resigned that position under a cloud of acrimony.

Since the publication, in 1976, of his book Criticism and Ideology, Terry Eagleton became quickly established as perhaps the most prominent left-wing academic. That status was entrenched further with another famous book, Literary Theory: An Introduction, published in 1983.

More recently, a string of influential books has helped shaped contemporary debate on literary criticism, the arts, political economy, terrorism, political philosophy, not to mention… the meaning of life. Of those, After Theory (2003) and Trouble with Strangers: A study of ethics (2008) are particularly important from UADPhilEcon’s perspective, more generally, and from the perspective of UADPhilEcon’s Annual Public Memorial Lecture in Honour of Kosmas Psychopaidis.

Terry Eagleton's books include:

 Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics (2008)
 The Meaning of Life (2007)
 How to Read a Poem (2006)
 Holy Terror (2005)
 The English Novel: An Introduction (2004)
 After Theory (2004)
 Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others (2003)
 Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2002)
 The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2002)
 The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996)
 Literary Theory: An Introduction (revised edition, 1996)
 Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture (1995)
 Ideology: An Introduction (1991)
 The Function of Criticism (1984)
 Walter Benjamin, or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981)
 Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976)
 The Body as Language (1970)

Last but not least, Terry Eagleton, over the years, has contributed hugely significant articles, reviews and commentaries through the pages of the London Review of Books. Samples of these articles can be had by clicking here.

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