In his latest work, the renowned British author and literary scholar Terry Eagleton explores the relationship between philosophy and everyday experience. He offers a humanistic approach to thinking that is suitable for practical coexistence among people. In light of a society where members largely define themselves as materialistic and a new materialism stripped of emancipatory content in universities, Eagleton advocates for a politics of matter that champions change in circumstances. In a journey through the history of materialist thought, from Democritus to Aristotle and Sigmund Freud, the author defends the materialist mindset against current trends in Cultural Studies and postmodern movements.