Terry Eagleton Quote

The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.


Chapter 2, p. 62 - Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)


The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial...

The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial...

The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial...

The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial...