Fredric Jameson, professor of romance studies, Knut Schmidt Nielsen distinguished professor of comparative literature and director of the Institute for Critical Theory, is remembered for his ...

Terry Eagleton has been a literary luminary in the U.K. and the U.S. since the mid-1960s, best known for his influential work in Marxist literary and cultural theory and criticism, but also as a ...

Open Marxism 2: Theory and Practice was released with volume 1 in 1992. The introduction to volume 2 is included below along with the full PDF. For a fuller overview of Open Marxism, see the ...

Recently, I chanced upon a book review by the British author and literary critic Terry Eagleton, published two years ago in the London Review of Books. The book he had reviewed is about Karl Marx’s ...

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 ...

It has held sway in the humanities for nearly four decades, surviving even the great culture wars. But it is being used in surprising ways. Either literary theory is dead, or it’s invincible. It all ...