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The Collapse of the Religious Hieroglyph: Typology and Natural Language in Herbert and Bacon*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Andrew M. Cooper
Andrew M. Cooper*
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University of Texas, Austin
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Because rationalism and logocentrism have no eternal political essences, … they can be put to different political uses in different historical contexts. This is not to say that epistemological claims (or literary styles, or any other symbolic structures) are ideology-free and impervious to ideological analysis, only that the relation between the epistemological claim or other symbolic structure and the interests it serves is a contextual one that can change as the historical context changes.

Oscar Kenshur, “(Avoidable) Snares and Avoidable Muddles”

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , Spring 1992 , pp. 96 - 118
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1992

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Footnotes

*

This essay is greatly indebted to the teaching of Martin Elsky and may be accurately considered as an extended footnote to chapter 5 of Authorizing Words: Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance.

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