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It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

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Terry Eagleton
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 22
Literary Critic
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Salford
Greater Manchester
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