Overinterpretation
Feb. 27th, 2005 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saavedra77"Codes, conspiracies, prophecies, encryptions: in all these ways, a civilization in which everyday life seems increasingly directionless compensates for a lack of sense with an excess of it. Frenetic overinterpretation makes up for a general hemorrhage of meaning." (Italics added.)
- Terry Eagleton, "The Enlightenment is Dead! Long Live the Enlightenment!" Harper's Magazine, March 2005.
- Terry Eagleton, "The Enlightenment is Dead! Long Live the Enlightenment!" Harper's Magazine, March 2005.
