Ideas, Ideology, and Interests: On Terry Eagleton´s Approach to Culture Olaf Miemiec German Idealism History of Ideas Culture Ideology Critical Theory The British literary theorist Terry Eagleton has significantly influenced contemporary debates on culture. This essay provides a reading of his book The Idea of Culture (2000), in which Eagleton discusses historical, philosophical and political contexts of notions of "culture" thereby unveiling the political interests inherent to such conceptual constructions. The essay highlights Eagleton's complex understanding of relations between nature and culture as well as his own materialist approach to culture. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2017 2017-01-27 2018-01-31 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2017-179-63320 eng 2714728-9 7 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/6332/6334 10.17192/meta.2017.7.6332 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2017/179/6332