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(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"

42

What is amusing about Deep Thought’s ‘42’ is not just the bathos of it

—p.42 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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What is amusing about Deep Thought’s ‘42’ is not just the bathos of it

—p.42 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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relating to or denoting the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (noun or adj)

43

Marxists, for instance, are usually atheists, but they believe that human life, or what they would prefer to call ‘history’, has a meaning in the sense of displaying a significant pattern.

—p.43 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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Marxists, for instance, are usually atheists, but they believe that human life, or what they would prefer to call ‘history’, has a meaning in the sense of displaying a significant pattern.

—p.43 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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(noun) a building or chamber in which bodies or bones are deposited

54

Only the obtusely self-deluded, confronted with the charnel house of history, could imagine otherwise.

—p.54 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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Only the obtusely self-deluded, confronted with the charnel house of history, could imagine otherwise.

—p.54 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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(noun) the act of renouncing or rejecting something; self-denial

55

Only the selflessness of aesthetic contemplation, along with a kind of Buddhist self-abnegation, can purge us of the astigmatism of wanting, and allow us to see the world for what it is.

—p.55 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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Only the selflessness of aesthetic contemplation, along with a kind of Buddhist self-abnegation, can purge us of the astigmatism of wanting, and allow us to see the world for what it is.

—p.55 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine

56

the cheerless challenge of a Schopenhauer. His work forces them to struggle hard to make their vision seem anything more than anodyne consolation.

—p.56 The eclipse of meaning (56) by Terry Eagleton
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the cheerless challenge of a Schopenhauer. His work forces them to struggle hard to make their vision seem anything more than anodyne consolation.

—p.56 The eclipse of meaning (56) by Terry Eagleton
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philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world

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immanence does not necessarily imply transcendence. A meaning to life put there by God, and one conjured up by ourselves, may not be the only possibilities.

—p.66 The eclipse of meaning (56) by Terry Eagleton
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immanence does not necessarily imply transcendence. A meaning to life put there by God, and one conjured up by ourselves, may not be the only possibilities.

—p.66 The eclipse of meaning (56) by Terry Eagleton
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unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

67

Isn’t a genuine meaning one which we feel ourselves running up against, one which can resist or rebuff us, one which bears in on us with a certain ineluctability?

—p.67 The eclipse of meaning (56) by Terry Eagleton
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Isn’t a genuine meaning one which we feel ourselves running up against, one which can resist or rebuff us, one which bears in on us with a certain ineluctability?

—p.67 The eclipse of meaning (56) by Terry Eagleton
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the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts

75

Signifi cantly, it was a Protestant pastor, Friedrich Schleiermacher, who invented the science of hermeneutics, or interpretation.

—p.75 The eclipse of meaning (56) by Terry Eagleton
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Signifi cantly, it was a Protestant pastor, Friedrich Schleiermacher, who invented the science of hermeneutics, or interpretation.

—p.75 The eclipse of meaning (56) by Terry Eagleton
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(verb) to offer as example, reason, or proof in discussion or analysis

80

and adduces Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in its defence

—p.80 Is life what you make it? (78) by Terry Eagleton
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and adduces Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in its defence

—p.80 Is life what you make it? (78) by Terry Eagleton
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physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy; the concept featured heavily in the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan's and was expanded on by Roland Barthes for literary theory, to contrast with mere "pleasure" derived from reading texts that don't challenge the reader as a subject. can also refer to pleasure that devolves into pain

91

The frantic jouissance of seizing the day, gathering rosebuds, downing an extra glass, and living like there’s no tomorrow is a desperate strategy for outwitting death, one which seeks pointlessly to cheat it rather than to make something of it.

—p.91 Is life what you make it? (78) by Terry Eagleton
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The frantic jouissance of seizing the day, gathering rosebuds, downing an extra glass, and living like there’s no tomorrow is a desperate strategy for outwitting death, one which seeks pointlessly to cheat it rather than to make something of it.

—p.91 Is life what you make it? (78) by Terry Eagleton
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