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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... sense (as most scholars of the subject agree) emerged only several centuries ago. In its early phases, moreover, it included quite different assumptions from ours about the relationship between observation and knowledge. Some ...
... sense (as most scholars of the subject agree) emerged only several centuries ago. In its early phases, moreover, it included quite different assumptions from ours about the relationship between observation and knowledge. Some ...
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... sense of secretum, or “setapart.”17 Secrecy, for Milton, is akin to sacredness. Milton's Almighty speaks from inside a “secret Cloud” (PL 10.32). He makes “high and secret judgments,” and is “in some ways high, secret past finding out ...
... sense of secretum, or “setapart.”17 Secrecy, for Milton, is akin to sacredness. Milton's Almighty speaks from inside a “secret Cloud” (PL 10.32). He makes “high and secret judgments,” and is “in some ways high, secret past finding out ...
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... / More sacred” (4.705–706, my emphasis) – a line that seems to offer “secret,” which would clearly be appropriate in the sense of “setapart,” only to substitute “sacred,” which is both malapropos and (as I have argued)
... / More sacred” (4.705–706, my emphasis) – a line that seems to offer “secret,” which would clearly be appropriate in the sense of “setapart,” only to substitute “sacred,” which is both malapropos and (as I have argued)
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... sense, Satan gets what he wants – but it does not follow that he wants what he gets. “My self am Hell” (4.75) is the corollary of “the mind is its own place.” In his famous apostrophe to the sun, Satan's secrecy degrades into ...
... sense, Satan gets what he wants – but it does not follow that he wants what he gets. “My self am Hell” (4.75) is the corollary of “the mind is its own place.” In his famous apostrophe to the sun, Satan's secrecy degrades into ...
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... sense that it appears moreorless impossible to do, or theorize, interpretation without them. Thus Milton appears to be associating our interpretations with our fallenness – indeed, with the wilfull or Satanic persistence in fallenness ...
... sense that it appears moreorless impossible to do, or theorize, interpretation without them. Thus Milton appears to be associating our interpretations with our fallenness – indeed, with the wilfull or Satanic persistence in fallenness ...
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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