![]() ![]() The metaphor acutely points to the fact that Eagleton has lost his political way.Ī prolific author, Eagleton has written original and seminal works on literature, ideology, and postmodernism. ![]() But it is our own inability to envision more than this spontaneous self-expression that explains its appeal. There is something charming in this metaphor of working creatively with others especially as it is something done entirely for its own sake. When there is no collective political action it is still possible for individuals to make music together. ![]() This form of ‘collectivity’ is both a replacement for lost forms of radical social and political tradition and an offer of something seemingly positive in our atomised and individualised society a metaphor that has an ironic echo of Marx’s vision of a future communist society as ‘an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all’. We discover at the end of this short book that the ‘meaning of life’, for Eagleton, can be expressed in the metaphor of a jamming jazz band. Posted on ‘The Meaning of Life’ by Terry Eagleton Oxford University Press, 2007. ![]()
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