[Milton-L] historicism, formalism, etc. (Skulsky)

[Kim Maxwell]

Prof. Feming

I wonder how you feel about Gadamer's insistence on totalization.  I also wonder if you see any affinity between Gadamer and Milton in Areopagitica, where he argues (as I read it) that (a) there is a terminus ad quem to human knowledge (God), (b) it cannot be realized, but (c) we may approached in a kind of increasingly improved approximation, recognizing that some are better than others, through disputation.  Is this an  anti-historicist account, or can one make sense of an argument that history itself is the membrane by which approximations improve, even if we never reach the end and can never really know the end (we are always in Plato's cave).

Kim Maxwell
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