Terry Eagleton Quotes:
Ocupation: Literary critic
Life: b. February 22, 1943
Birthday: February 22
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
topic: Important, Prejudice, Revolution, Eggheads, Anglo Saxon
