Materialism

A new Terry Eagleton book is like a box of handmade chocolates. Full of revealing moments and a treat throughout and when finished there's little to show for it but the memory of the pleasure of eating/reading it. His style is so clear you can almost skim through hair raising philosophical assertions and exegesis without pausing to draw breath as it were, to assimilate the material I suppose I mean. This is due also to the authority in his style. At any rate for those of us who value the intellect it is an invitation to spend a few hours with some of the greats, in close proximity thanks to Eagleton's unswerving instinct for what's really at issue. Anyone familiar with his (recent) work will recognise the talent reviewed in this volume, Aquinas, Marx, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche, with ref. to Freud and the Frankfurt school among others. An absolute pleasure.