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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... 1608–1674– Criticism, Textual. 3. Secrecy in literature. 4. Hermeneutics. 5. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature I. Title. PR3592.S36F64 2007 821'.4—dc22 200701.2683 ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-6067-5 (hbk) For Cynthia without whom not.
... 1608–1674– Criticism, Textual. 3. Secrecy in literature. 4. Hermeneutics. 5. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature I. Title. PR3592.S36F64 2007 821'.4—dc22 200701.2683 ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-6067-5 (hbk) For Cynthia without whom not.
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... Renaissance ELR Milton Quarterly MQ Milton Studies MS Renaissance Quarterly RQ Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 SEL Introduction Against Secrecy We assume that knowledge results from discovery. List of Abbreviations.
... Renaissance ELR Milton Quarterly MQ Milton Studies MS Renaissance Quarterly RQ Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 SEL Introduction Against Secrecy We assume that knowledge results from discovery. List of Abbreviations.
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... knowledge differently – say, as construction, rather than as uncovering. It does not follow that our trope is wrong, only that it is a trope. Our commitment to discovery is a rhetorical choice with epistemological consequences. For ...
... knowledge differently – say, as construction, rather than as uncovering. It does not follow that our trope is wrong, only that it is a trope. Our commitment to discovery is a rhetorical choice with epistemological consequences. For ...
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... knowledge. Some lateAristotelian natural philosophers, for example, maintained that the truth of things was a matter of their surface presentation.1 My point is not that these scholars were right, but that they had not yet taken on our ...
... knowledge. Some lateAristotelian natural philosophers, for example, maintained that the truth of things was a matter of their surface presentation.1 My point is not that these scholars were right, but that they had not yet taken on our ...
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... knowledge, people have a tendency to infer (erroneously) that knowledge invariably follows secrecy. Accordingly, in conspiracy theory, official denials and exonerations – backed up, as it were, by absence of evidence – simply support ...
... knowledge, people have a tendency to infer (erroneously) that knowledge invariably follows secrecy. Accordingly, in conspiracy theory, official denials and exonerations – backed up, as it were, by absence of evidence – simply support ...
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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