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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... hypotheticodeductive) empiricism. With that generalization I do not mean to propose an hermeneutic genealogy, or (again) to question the efficacy or validity of the discoverymodel. I do mean to suggest Introduction: Against Secrecy.
... hypotheticodeductive) empiricism. With that generalization I do not mean to propose an hermeneutic genealogy, or (again) to question the efficacy or validity of the discoverymodel. I do mean to suggest Introduction: Against Secrecy.
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... question “who saw / When this creation was?” (5.856–857) As the heavenly rebellion proceeds from disaster to disaster, Satan discovers success after success, lying under the interpretative surface. The rebels' defeat on the first day of ...
... question “who saw / When this creation was?” (5.856–857) As the heavenly rebellion proceeds from disaster to disaster, Satan discovers success after success, lying under the interpretative surface. The rebels' defeat on the first day of ...
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... questions about what we can and cannot know devolve (as I noted at the outset) on questions of interpretation. Therefore, Milton's Satanizations of secrecy and discovery, insofar as these constitute the key terms of interpretation ...
... questions about what we can and cannot know devolve (as I noted at the outset) on questions of interpretation. Therefore, Milton's Satanizations of secrecy and discovery, insofar as these constitute the key terms of interpretation ...
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... questions that leave the Lady silent. Manifesting the secret of his hair before Philistine armies, Samson acts out the inwardness that is not his to hold. His erroneous turn to Dalilah is a closure, not a revelation, of his divine gift ...
... questions that leave the Lady silent. Manifesting the secret of his hair before Philistine armies, Samson acts out the inwardness that is not his to hold. His erroneous turn to Dalilah is a closure, not a revelation, of his divine gift ...
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... question of interpretation, clearly, is central to this sort of hermeneutic work. Yet if interpretation is always a matter of secrecy and discovery – if we know, in advance, what interpretation is – then the hermeneutic inquiry into ...
... question of interpretation, clearly, is central to this sort of hermeneutic work. Yet if interpretation is always a matter of secrecy and discovery – if we know, in advance, what interpretation is – then the hermeneutic inquiry into ...
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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