Only Pinter remains

British literature's long and rich tradition of
politically engaged writers has come to an end

By Terry Eagleton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2120880,00.html
Guardian (UK)
July 7, 2007

For almost the first time in two centuries, there is no
eminent British poet, playwright or novelist prepared
to question the foundations of the western way of life.
One might make an honourable exception of Harold
Pinter, who has wisely decided that being a champagne
socialist is better than being no socialist at all; but
his most explicitly political work is also his most
artistically dreary.

The word "pluralism" never appeared in the English article.

And the concept never appears in American thought.

Bret Cahill

On Jul 9, 12:23 am, Bret Cahill aol.com> wrote:

And so....

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I need some explanation as to how Isaiah Berlin has entered this thread. Did
I miss a post?

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Did

On Jul 9, 11:59 am, "brique" wrote:

On Jul 8, 5:22 pm, *Anarcissie* gmail.com> wrote:

The topic: Only Pinter Remains; British literature's long and rich
tradition of politically engaged writers has come to an end

Should instead be;

Only one ideologue Remains; British literature's long and rich
tradition of politically engaged leftist/marxist writers has declined
noticably.

This is probably a matter of different "degrees" of ideological
framing maybe inversely proportional to bipolarly opposed views,
instead of different "kinds" of times of expression. There has been
verying degrees of ideological expression all along and you have not
shown how this has reached a point of no return or cannot reverse in
direction.

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