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Metaphors in modern and contemporary philosophy / Arthur Cools, Walter Van Herck, Koenraad Verrycken (eds.) ; book design Hasselt Maarten Deckers ; contributors Vanessa Albus [and fourteen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Verrycken, Koenraad.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Philosophy.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Brussels, Belgium : University Press Antwerp, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this collection focus on the way philosophers use concrete and specific metaphors in their discourse as instruments of philosophical thought. The philosophical involvement with metaphor has its ambiguities: on the one hand, philosophers seek the clear and unequivocal presentation of ideas and argumentations; on the other hand, philosophers do not seem able to do without metaphors and figurative language. The present collection of articles is intended to illustrate the idea that metaphors have their own irreplaceable role to play in philosophy, as the expression of the finite, provisional, and contingent character of our thinking. In the first, systematic part of the book, different approaches to the role of philosophical metaphors in general are proposed from different angles. In the second and third parts, some selected metaphors in the history of modern and contemporary philosophy are discussed.
- Contents:
- ""Front ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Philosophy in its Metaphorical Guises. An Introduction""; ""Metaphor, Image and Hypotyposis""; ""Metaphors in Philosophy and the Philosophy of Metaphor""; ""Discourse Analysis and Philosophical Metaphors""; ""Agentive Metaphors, the Selfish Gene, and Puritanism about Teleological Concepts""; ""Plus ultra. Navigating beyond the Pillars of Hercules. The Ambiguous Genesis of a Geographical Metaphor""; ""Bradwardine and Pascal about the Infinite Sphere. Copernican Considerations on a Metaphor""
- ""Motion without Locomotion. Vico�s Cyclic Metaphors and his Concept of Development""""Hegel�s Use of Metaphors""; ""Schopenhauer�s Antinomy of Cognition and his Conception of a Metaphysical Language""; ""On the Significance of the Projection Metaphor for Feuerbach�s Critique of Religion and Materialist Philosophy""; ""Nietzsche�s Metaphors and the Moulting of the Snake. Metaphor and Narrative in Nietzsche�s Philosophy of Becoming""; ""Heidegger Thinking (without) Metaphors: On �The House of Being� and �Words, as Flowers�""
- ""Trace and Resemblance in the Face of the Other. On the Problem of Metaphor in Levinas� Philosophy""""Sea and Earth. Metaphor in Kant, Lyotard and Lacoue-Labarthe""; ""Is Metaphoricity Threatening or Saving Thought?""; ""Contributors""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 29, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 922966425
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