Philosophy

The Eagleton committee

Item: Trouble With Strangers
Author: Anthony Elliott

by Anthony Elliott •

March 2009, no. 309

Trouble With Strangers: A study of ethics by Terry Eagleton

Wiley-Blackwell, $49.95 pb, 347 pp

Philosophy

The Eagleton committee

by Anthony Elliott •

March 2009, no. 309

Terry Eagleton has been widely hailed as Britain’s most important contemporary literary critic. He is surely that, and a great deal more besides.

Marxist maverick, cultural theorist, budding novelist and playwright, he was for many years the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. Having traded Oxford for the University of Manchester in the early 2000s, Eagleton has roamed the globe over recent years, speaking on such lofty topics as postmodernism, deconstruction, and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Anthony Elliott

Anthony Elliott is Executive Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of South Australia, where he is Research Professor of Sociology and Dean of External Engagement. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Senior Member of King’s College Cambridge, and SuperGlobal Professor of Sociology (Visiting) at Keio University, Japan. He is the author and editor of more than forty books, and his recent publications include The Culture of AI: Everyday life and the digital revolution (2019), Concepts of the Self (2020, 4^th Edition), and Reinvention (2021, 2nd Edition).