A01=James Dougal Fleming
Aesthetic Consciousness
Author_James Dougal Fleming
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Das Geheimnis
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Debora Shuger
Divine Witness
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Early Modern English
early modern hermeneutics
Edward King
epistemology of interpretation
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Gadamer's Philosophical
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Gadamer’s Philosophical
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Hungry Sheep
Milton's Elegy
Milton's God
Milton's Intentions
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Milton’s Elegy
Milton’s God
Milton’s Intentions
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Paradise Lost
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Philosophical Hermeneutics
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Renaissance Neoplatonism
Samson Agonistes
Samson's Action
Samson's Strength
Samson’s Action
Samson’s Strength
Secondary Intension
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Tudor-Stuart ideology
Violating
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138259690
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
James Dougal Fleming is Assistant Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
