Absolutist Knowledge and Hermeneutic Faith: Hobbes and Milton on the Problem of Fallen Language
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Abstract
I compare the conceptions of metaphor withinthe works of Hobbes and Milton. Fearing its rhetoricallyprotean capacity, Hobbes condemns metaphor as a “causeof absurdity” insufficient for the advance of science and civil order, while Milton embraces metaphor as a redeemedmode of post-lapsarian language. By reconciling the problem of reference, metaphor, in Milton’s conception, enablespost-lapsarian faith, from which follows the civil and epistemological order that Hobbes claims can only be established by the sovereign. Building on Timothy Rosendale’sdiscussion of Milton’s Reformed faith as a personal processof reading and interpretation, I explore the function of metaphor and interpretation in Milton’s Reformed conceptionof faith in light of how they shape both his politics and theology.
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