Metaphor and continental philosophy : from Kant to Derrida / Clive Cazeaux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cazeaux, Clive.

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth century philosophy ; 23.

Routledge studies in twentieth-century philosophy ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Continental philosophy.

Physical Description:

221 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

Over the last few decades there has been a phenomenal growth of interest in metaphor as a device which extends or revises our perception of the world. Clive Cazeaux examines the relationship between metaphor, art and science, against the backdrop of modern European philosophy and, in particular, the work of Kant, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. He contextualizes recent theories of the cognitive potential of metaphor within modern European philosophy and explores the impact which the notion of cognitive metaphor has on key positions and concepts within aesthetics, epistemology and the philosophy of science.

Contents:

Kant and Heidegger on the creation of objectivity

The power of judgment : metaphor in the structure of Kant's third Critique

Sensation, categorization, and embodiment : Locke, Merleau-Ponty, and Lakoff and Johnson

Heidegger and the senses

Conflicting perspectives : epistemology and ontology in Nietzsche's will to power

Cutting nature at the joints : metaphor and epistemology in the science wars

Opening and belonging : between subject and object in Heidegger and Bachelard

Metaphor and metaphysics in Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-213) and index.

ISBN:

9780415324007

0415324009

OCLC:

76792058