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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... exoteric ideal of utterance and semantic incarnation. The result is a view of language as fundamentally, and pragmatically, meaningful – and of meaning as a property of texts in the world, not of the minds that project texts into the ...
... exoteric ideal of utterance and semantic incarnation. The result is a view of language as fundamentally, and pragmatically, meaningful – and of meaning as a property of texts in the world, not of the minds that project texts into the ...
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... Exoteric Milton is not alone as an earlymodern enemy of secrecy. Socially, secrecy is highly problematic in the period. It is the unobservable subjectivity where vices are at home. Its epithets – like the English “policy,” or the German ...
... Exoteric Milton is not alone as an earlymodern enemy of secrecy. Socially, secrecy is highly problematic in the period. It is the unobservable subjectivity where vices are at home. Its epithets – like the English “policy,” or the German ...
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... exoteric.” By exoteric I do not just mean “apparent” or “open” – nonesoteric. I do mean that; but I also mean, and more importantly for my purposes, antiesoteric – the term of an.
... exoteric.” By exoteric I do not just mean “apparent” or “open” – nonesoteric. I do mean that; but I also mean, and more importantly for my purposes, antiesoteric – the term of an.
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... exoteric. They make secrets manifest, as though from metamorphic depths. The seventeenthcentury hermeticist Michael Maier proposed that the Egyptian hieroglyphs had been invented by learned men, during a time of chaos and breakdown, in ...
... exoteric. They make secrets manifest, as though from metamorphic depths. The seventeenthcentury hermeticist Michael Maier proposed that the Egyptian hieroglyphs had been invented by learned men, during a time of chaos and breakdown, in ...
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... exoteric,” and inner, or “esoteric.” By “exoteric” Strauss simply means open or apparent or obvious – and therefore, as though by definition, not really meaningful. By “esoteric” he simply means hidden or encoded or latent – and ...
... exoteric,” and inner, or “esoteric.” By “exoteric” Strauss simply means open or apparent or obvious – and therefore, as though by definition, not really meaningful. By “esoteric” he simply means hidden or encoded or latent – and ...
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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