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9780801449253

Paradigms for a Metaphorology

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    9780801449253

  • ISBN10:

    0801449251

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-11-30
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Summary

What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and indifferences that regulate an epoch than their carefully elaborated systems of thought?In Paradigms for a Metaphorology, originally published in 1963 and here made available for the first time in English translation, Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) approaches these questions by examining the relationship between metaphors and concepts. Blumenberg argues for the existence of "absolute metaphors" that cannot be translated back into conceptual language. Absolute metaphors "answer" the supposedly naïve, theoretically unanswerable questions whose relevance lies quite simply in the fact that they cannot be brushed aside, since we do not pose them ourselves but find them already posed in the ground of our existence. They leap into a void that concepts are unable to fill. An afterword by the translator, Robert Savage, positions the book in the intellectual context of its time and explains its continuing importance for work in the history of ideas.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Translationp. vii
Introductionp. 1
Metaphorics of the 'Mighty' Truthp. 6
Metaphorics of Truth and Pragmatics of Knowledgep. 13
A Terminological and Metaphorological Cross Section of the Idea of Truthp. 31
Metaphorics of the 'Naked' Truthp. 40
Terra Incognita and 'Incomplete Universe' as Metaphors of the Modern Relationship to the Worldp. 52
Organic and Mechanical Background Metaphoricsp. 62
Myth and Metaphoricsp. 77
Terminologization of a Metaphor: From 'Verisimilitude' to 'Probability'p. 81
Metaphorized Cosmologyp. 99
Geometric Symbolism and Metaphoricsp. 115
Translator's Afterword. Metaphorology: A Beginner's Guidep. 133
Index of Namesp. 147
Subject Indexp. 151
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