"Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but……" — Terry Eagleton
"Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional."
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87 Quotes by Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton has 87 quotes on this site.
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than…
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It…
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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine.…
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Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
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It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways…
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin,…
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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting…
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Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
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What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One…
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Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish…
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More Deconstruction Quotes
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
— Berkeley Breathed
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That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something…
— Jacques Derrida
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You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get…
— Louis C. K.
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Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus…
— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to…
— Claudio Magris
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative…
— Harold Bloom
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I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say…
— Danny Elfman
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Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
— Eric Maisel
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You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start…
— Harry Connick, Jr.
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In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous…
— Jonathan Miller
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