“At its most philistine and provincial, it makes Dick Cheney sound like Thomas Mann”

It’s made its way around the Internet for some time now, but Kathleen’s recent invocation of “Terry Eagleton’s scathing review of Richard Dawkins’s book”:http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n20/eagl01_.html finally got me to sit through the whole thing and I must admit it is a fascinating document. As a point of academic bloodspot it is superb, of course, and the piece also interesting for those of us who remember earlier incarnations of Terry Eagleton…