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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... words. Everything requires interpretation in order to be understood. 2. The study of interpretation – philosophical hermeneutics – is, therefore, a universal discipline. 3. The model of interpretation that obtains throughout the academy ...
... words. Everything requires interpretation in order to be understood. 2. The study of interpretation – philosophical hermeneutics – is, therefore, a universal discipline. 3. The model of interpretation that obtains throughout the academy ...
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... words for the general hermeneutics of modern Western culture – with the twist of delay. But delay is itself an extremely common variant on our interpretative compulsions. Running into a friend on the threshold of a cinema, we may say ...
... words for the general hermeneutics of modern Western culture – with the twist of delay. But delay is itself an extremely common variant on our interpretative compulsions. Running into a friend on the threshold of a cinema, we may say ...
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... words, they assume an earlymodern hermeneutics of discovery. They may be right. That they may be wrong is a suggestion I will work out over the course of this Introduction. For now, I would like to establish the testcase of this book in ...
... words, they assume an earlymodern hermeneutics of discovery. They may be right. That they may be wrong is a suggestion I will work out over the course of this Introduction. For now, I would like to establish the testcase of this book in ...
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... word “secret” is uttered in Milton's paradise before the fall – but only as tribute to God, denoting what unfallen creatures do not and must not seek. The archangel Raphael begins his account of the war in heaven by making clear that he ...
... word “secret” is uttered in Milton's paradise before the fall – but only as tribute to God, denoting what unfallen creatures do not and must not seek. The archangel Raphael begins his account of the war in heaven by making clear that he ...
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... words, the thesis is that Milton's interest is always in why we want what we can't have; always in the regret, the pain and irony, of our fallen finitude. One can accept this insight, however, while noting that interpretation remains a ...
... words, the thesis is that Milton's interest is always in why we want what we can't have; always in the regret, the pain and irony, of our fallen finitude. One can accept this insight, however, while noting that interpretation remains a ...
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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