Terry Eagleton & Matthew Beaumont’s The Task of the Critic is Times Higher Education’s Book of the Week

Times Higher Education makes Terry Eagleton and Matthew Beaumont‘s The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue their Book of the Week,with a review by Willy Maley:

Eagleton is a “player” in every sense, and The Task of the Critic shows him as an eagle-eyed trickster. Prolific and profound, the last of a generation, this egalitarian terrier is still chewing at the leash. After a lifetime of commitment he remains a live wire, the most readable literary critic we have: one whose task is never done, his playfulness and stylistic verve masking consider­able theoretical sophistication.

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Aziz Al-Azmeh’s Islams and Modernities reviewed for Al-Ahram Weekly

Eric Walberg reviewed the third edition of Aziz Al-Azmeh‘s Islams and Modernities for Al-Ahram Weekly.

…the author provides a searing critique of both postmodernism and (multi)culturalism and of the radical Islamism that has arisen over the past 30 years in response to the Western onslaught on the Muslim world. … it is to recognise, as Al-Azmeh demands we do, the importance of history, of fixing our eyes on its sweep and the social and economic forces shaping it.

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Aziz Al-Azmeh is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Humanities Center, Central European University, Budapest and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest. His other works include Ibn Khaldûn: An Essay in Reinterpretation and The Times of History: Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography.

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Christian Salmon launches Storytelling at the RSA

Chaired by Steven Poole, author and journalist, Christian Salmon launched his book Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind on Thursday 8th April at the RSA.

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Christian Salmon is a writer and researcher at the Centre for Research in the Arts and Languages at the CNRS in Paris. He is the founder of the International Parliament of Writers, and editor of the organisation’s journal Autodafe. He has worked as a literary critic and is the author of several works, including Kate Moss Machine, Verbicide and Devenir Minoritaire and writes a regular column for Le Monde.

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