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Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Part I - The Meaning of Nothing

Jul 15, 2005 10:00

Interpretation and Overinterpretation:
Part I - The Meaning of Nothing
Rationalism, Hermetism, Gnosticism and Why The Sun Is Nice to Rowling

( I long threatended to post this and today is the day. Warning: It's extremely pretentious even for the likes of me. )

eco, fandom, interpretation, the author is dead, harry potter prattle

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tiferet July 15 2005, 18:59:42 UTC

psst--the word is "hermeticism" not "hermetism" ;-) I like it :D

no_remorse July 15 2005, 19:35:40 UTC

Hermetism and Hermeticism are two different, although closely related concepts. Hermetism (as it is used by Eco here) refers the original Greco-Egyptian pagan mystical sect, based on the Hermetic Corpus, also known as the Hermetica, a group of 18 tracts composed in Hellenic Alexandria in the first century C.E.

Hermeticism is the Renaissance/modern revival.

I think both can be used interchangeably here - so I am just sticking to Eco's use of Hermetism.