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Milton's Secrecy

And Philosophical Hermeneutics

By: James Dougal Fleming

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Milton's Secrecy

And Philosophical Hermeneutics

By: James Dougal Fleming

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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Routledge

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1351917501

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9781351917506

Milton's Paradise Lost

By: James Davis

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Milton's Paradise Lost

By: James Davis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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129

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3368832751

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9783368832759

Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Navity with an Introduction

By: John Hookham Frere,James Davies,Charles Abraham Elton,Henry William Tytler

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Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Navity with an Introduction

By: John Hookham Frere,James Davies,Charles Abraham Elton,Henry William Tytler

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385445388

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9783385445383

Platonic Coleridge

By: James Vigus

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Platonic Coleridge

By: James Vigus

The ambivalent curiosity of the young poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) towards Plato - 'but I love Plato - his dear gorgeous nonsense!' - soon developed into a philosophical project, and the mature Coleridge proclaimed himself a reviver of Plato's unwritten or esoteric 'systems'. James Vigus's study traces Coleridge's discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the 'divine philosopher', and his Platonic interpretation of Kant's epistemology. It compares Coleridge's figurations of poetic inspiration with models in the Platonic dialogues, and investigates whether Coleridge's esoteric 'system' of philosophy ultimately fulfilled the Republics notorious banishment of poetry.

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MHRA

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1906540063

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9781906540067

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Milton's Secrecy

Milton's Secrecy

Milton's Paradise Lost

Milton's Paradise Lost

Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Navity with an Introduction

Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Navity with an Introduction

Platonic Coleridge

Platonic Coleridge

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