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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... seem to be raised by that figure and those discourses in that time and place. The difference here is like the difference between analyzing a conversation, and participating in it. To analyze a conversation is to figure out how it works ...
... seem to be raised by that figure and those discourses in that time and place. The difference here is like the difference between analyzing a conversation, and participating in it. To analyze a conversation is to figure out how it works ...
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... seems that textuality does not need to be illuminated. Perhaps it needs, rather, to be revealed – decoded, uncovered, demystified – by some theoretical method. Perhaps, too, it seems that the kind of inquiry I am describing (if it is to ...
... seems that textuality does not need to be illuminated. Perhaps it needs, rather, to be revealed – decoded, uncovered, demystified – by some theoretical method. Perhaps, too, it seems that the kind of inquiry I am describing (if it is to ...
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... seems to be a necessary part of our knowing what we know. Further, such a process seems to be necessary no matter what kind of data we encounter – be it a flock of birds, a sudden pain, a collocation of words. Everything requires ...
... seems to be a necessary part of our knowing what we know. Further, such a process seems to be necessary no matter what kind of data we encounter – be it a flock of birds, a sudden pain, a collocation of words. Everything requires ...
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... seems to me, to subsume Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion, associated with the scepticism of Nietzsche, Marx and Freud; and Leo Strauss' theory of writing and reading as esoteric encoding and decoding.2 Fetishized or ...
... seems to me, to subsume Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion, associated with the scepticism of Nietzsche, Marx and Freud; and Leo Strauss' theory of writing and reading as esoteric encoding and decoding.2 Fetishized or ...
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... seem fortuitous” – when they “bear on the face of them no other appearance” – we should strictly infer the opposite, the “secret stirrings of God's hand.”7 Evidence for randomness must be read as evidence for determinism: a very radical ...
... seem fortuitous” – when they “bear on the face of them no other appearance” – we should strictly infer the opposite, the “secret stirrings of God's hand.”7 Evidence for randomness must be read as evidence for determinism: a very radical ...
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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