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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464909103321

Autore

Verrycken Koenraad

Titolo

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]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brussels, Belgium : , : University Press Antwerp, , 2013

©2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CoolsArthur

VerryckenKoenraad

HerckWalter Van

Maarten DeckersHasselt

AlbusVanessa

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy, Modern

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""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""