Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks. The reader can become so delighted with the rhetorical pyrotechnics that the force of the argument is lost. But for all the literary razzle ...

A lively defense of Karl Marx's ideas attempts to reassert their relevancy for a world in the throes of global financial instability. Taking issue with what he sees as the 10 most common criticisms of ...

In February 2009, near the low point of the financial crisis, Karl Marx made the cover of Time—or at least its European edition—for the first time since 1948. The images provide a vivid illustration ...

In his usual engaging manner, cultural critic Eagleton (Reason, Faith, and Revolution) offers a tour-de-force survey of the changing relation of culture and religion. Moving from the ...

The meaning of matter, the scope of philosophy and the life of embodied creatures like us are among the topics that Terry Eagleton, the literary theorist and public intellectual, explores in ...

There have always been elements of ironic comedy about the spectacle of Marxist academics fervently proclaiming their revolutionary message while safely ensconced in Western institutions of higher ...

This is an appeal to the subscribers, contributors, advertisers and well-wishers of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), published by Sameeksha Trust, a public charitable trust registered with the ...