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By James Dougal Fleming

ISBN-10: 0754660672

ISBN-13: 9780754660675

clinical modernity treats interpretation as a question of discovery. Discovery, notwithstanding, will not be all that issues approximately interpretation. In Milton's Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are concerning the presentation of a considerably diverse hermeneutic version. this is often according to openness inside of language, instead of on secrets and techniques in the international. Milton's representations of that means are exoteric, no longer esoteric; recognitive, now not creative. Milton's Secrecy locations its titular topic towards the epistemology of recent ordinary technological know-how, and to the interpretative assumptions that technological know-how helps. even as, the booklet areas Milton inside early glossy contexts of interpretation and information. Drawing on Renaissance Neoplatonism, Tudor-Stuart ideology, and the Calvinist conception of sense of right and wrong, Milton's Secrecy argues that the try to theorize interpretation with out discovery isn't unorthodox inside early smooth English tradition. If something, Milton's hostility to secrecy and discovery aligns him together with his culture's moral and hermeneutic excellent. Milton's Secrecy offers an old framework for contemplating the theoretical validity of this perfect, by means of aligning it with the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer.

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