James Dougal Fleming: 2 books
The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England
John Wilkins and the Universal Character
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of...
Milton's Secrecy
And Philosophical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
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...