Meaning of pseudoenlightenment | Babel Free

Definitions

False enlightenment.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“[T]he social construct of the good life is manifest in these works—an urban American vision framed by the achievements of commerce and of the new pluralist pseudoenlightenment of equal opportunity.”

“His culminating vision is a pseudoenlightenment, contaminated by his unaltered egoism: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity" (35; emphasis mine).”

“One such audience member, catching a ray of pseudoenlightenment, realizes that watching a woman bash people to death for three years has turned him into "a feminist."”

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