The Good Life, a consideration of politics and ethics in the Aristotelian tradition also being worked by his friend Alasdair MacIntyre. A good bit of Eagleton's intro to the book on Jesus in the Verso Revolutions series come from McCabe. --CGE
Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> On 12/21/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 21, 2007, at 5:56 PM, John E. Norem wrote:
>>> http://tinyurl.com/2z7onj
>> Damn, maybe I should become a Catholic again. Sure would be a change.
>
> following in zizek's footsteps, here? interesting, in any case. my first
> encounter with eagleton was as an undergrad reading _literary theory: an
> introduction_, and i recall even then, when i knew relatively little, being
> really irritated with the straw men he knocked down in that book,
> particularly wrt postmodernism. that said, his forthright marxism was also a
> really new thing for me, and in retrospect, probably pretty important, too.
>
> i've warmed to eagleton over the years, and his review of dawkins last year
> was pretty much spot on, imo, as is this one:
>
> ---
>
> Since the War on Terror, he argues, there has been a revival of
> old-fashioned liberal rationalism. "Not just Amis, but Hitchens as well.
> There is an element of panic and even hysteria in the way that people are
> waving their rational credentials."
>
> ---
>
>
> this is interesting, too, in the context of yesterday's post of steve
> early's column, which i meant to respond to and lost track of in the midst
> of other things. maybe the liberal rationalists are actually driving
> eagleton back into the arms of the church, in parallel to early's feeling
> driven into "militant atheism" (the practical consequences of which were
> pretty vague in that piece) by the minority of evangelicals and
> fundamentalists who dominate political discourse in the US?
>
>
> on the other hand, lining up parallels between marx and jesus, or between
> marxism (or even just activism/organizing) and religion in general (never
> mind christianity in particular) always makes me uncomfortable. for reasons
> i suspect many on this list share.
>
>
> j
>
>
> --
>
> "Among medieval and modern philosophers, anxious to establish the religious
> significance of God, an unfortunate habit has prevailed of paying to Him
> metaphysical compliments."
>
> - Whitehead
>
> http://brainmortgage.blogspot.com/
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