Milton's Secrecy: And Philosophical HermeneuticsRoutledge, 05.12.2016 - 216 Seiten Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic model. This is based on openness within language, rather than on secrets within the world. Milton's representations of meaning are exoteric, not esoteric; recognitive, not inventive. Milton's Secrecy places its titular subject in opposition to the epistemology of modern natural science, and to the interpretative assumptions that science supports. At the same time, the book places Milton within early modern contexts of interpretation and knowledge. Drawing on Renaissance Neoplatonism, Tudor-Stuart ideology, and the Calvinist theory of conscience, Milton's Secrecy argues that the attempt to theorize interpretation without discovery is not unorthodox within early modern English culture. If anything, Milton's hostility to secrecy and discovery aligns him with his culture's ethical and hermeneutic ideal. Milton's Secrecy provides an historical framework for considering the theoretical validity of this ideal, by aligning it with the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. |
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... argue, is precisely not an inquiry into textuality, but follows from the antecedent assumption that textuality ... argument, his whole passionate claim, is that we must commit ourselves to textuality as the plenitude of understanding ...
... argue, is precisely not an inquiry into textuality, but follows from the antecedent assumption that textuality ... argument, his whole passionate claim, is that we must commit ourselves to textuality as the plenitude of understanding ...
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... argue or assume, implicitly or explicitly, that studying the poet's work entails a search for hidden meaning. Thus Stanley Fish, summing up a lifetime's (extremely influential) poststructuralist work, speaks of a “secret difference ...
... argue or assume, implicitly or explicitly, that studying the poet's work entails a search for hidden meaning. Thus Stanley Fish, summing up a lifetime's (extremely influential) poststructuralist work, speaks of a “secret difference ...
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... argue). And Milton is Spenser's selfappointed successor in the secretridden business of literature – where he occupies the office of Author, concealer and revealer of things. Yet there has never been a book about Milton's secrecy; yet ...
... argue). And Milton is Spenser's selfappointed successor in the secretridden business of literature – where he occupies the office of Author, concealer and revealer of things. Yet there has never been a book about Milton's secrecy; yet ...
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... argue that Milton is motivated sociallypsychologically. Working from the English Protestant notion of conscience ... argument in this chapter engages, and to some extent contradicts, both New Historicist and antiNew Historicist accounts ...
... argue that Milton is motivated sociallypsychologically. Working from the English Protestant notion of conscience ... argument in this chapter engages, and to some extent contradicts, both New Historicist and antiNew Historicist accounts ...
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... argue, is wrong. Referring to speechact theory, AngloAmerican semantics, and the philosophical hermeneutics of HansGeorg Gadamer, I argue that the whole point of (Milton's) Samson's hair is a set toward the external. Against the twin ...
... argue, is wrong. Referring to speechact theory, AngloAmerican semantics, and the philosophical hermeneutics of HansGeorg Gadamer, I argue that the whole point of (Milton's) Samson's hair is a set toward the external. Against the twin ...
Inhalt
Expressing the Conscience | |
The Armor of Intention | |
The Armor of Intension | |
Talking and Learning in Paradise | |
Secrecy Again? | |
Works Cited | |
Index | |
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