Terry Eagleton: Where does culture come from?

The word ‘culture’ now drags the term ‘wars’ in its wake, but this is too narrow an approach to a concept with a much more capacious history. In the closing LRB Winter Lecture for 2024, Terry Eagleton examines various aspects of that history - culture and power, culture and ethics, culture and critique, culture and ideology - in an attempt to broaden the argument and understand where we are now.
Terry Eagleton delivered this lecture as part of the LRB’s Winter Lecture series at St James’s Church, Clerkenwell, London on 27 March 2024.
Read the lecture here: lrb.me/eagletonwl
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[@coreolis7]

Ah Terry what a beautiful human song, what a beautiful human spirit, what a human, human being you are !

[@adnanmahmud8854]

The song singlehandedly made the lecture still more humane. I was going to comment in the same vein as you!

[@stevemorley7657]

A typically brilliant talk by TE, bringing together much of his enormous range of work, with his usual insightfulness and humour. I especially liked his definition of communism. I know of no-one else who combines so many different areas of thought in novel ways. Zizek is similar, and has the advantage of a better understanding of Hegel I think, but other than that, I take Eagleton to be more sober. A fine voice too, though not quite at Luke Kelly’s standard (but how many are?)

[@NadiaIvanova-gt4zg]

Culture is a care for the spirit.

[@petergallo514]

🤟

[@guzelaziz]

Culture and labour 😻

[@yusrialtamimi1570]

Good Old George can handle these toxic interviewers

[@davidmorgan2042]

Sadly he has declined in health so much. Still talking sense though.

[@Johnconno]

Culture comes from North London.

[@Walter10065]

Is “culture” religion or large glasses? I’m afraid his analysis is confused by many mistaken assertions.