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Metaphors: Figures of the Mind - Z. Radman

Metaphors: Figures of the Mind

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Buch | Softcover
188 Seiten
2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1997
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-4780-9 (ISBN)
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This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself. Rather it is concerned with the argument from metaphor. In other words, it is about what I think we can learn from metaphor and the possible consequences of this lesson for a more adequate understanding, for instance, of our mental processes, the possibilities and limitations of our reasoning, the strictures of propositionality, the cognitive effect of fictional projections and so on. In this sense it is not, strictly speaking, a contribution to metaphorology; instead, it is an attempt to define the place of metaphor in the world of overall human intellectual activity, exemplary thematized here in the span that ranges from problems relating to the articulation of meanings up to general issues of creativity. Most of the aspects discussed, therefore, are examined not so much for the sake of gaining some new knowledge about metaphor (work conducted in the »science of metaphor« is presently so huge that an extra attempt to spell out another theory of metaphor may have an infiatory effect); the basic strategy of this book is to view metaphor within the complex of language usage and language competence, in human thought and action, and, finally, to see in what philosophically relevant way it improves our knowledge of ourselves. Certainly, by adopting this basic strategy we also simultaneously increase our knowledge of metaphors, of their functions and importance.

1. The Limits of Literalness.- 2. The Polysemic Chain of Meaning.- 3. Difficulties With Diagnosing the Death of a Metaphor.- 4. The Metaphoric Measure Of Meaning in Science.- 5. How is Radically New Knowledge Possible? Or: Bridging the New and the Old in a Metaphorical Way.- 6. How to Make Our Ideas Clear With Metaphors.- 7. Toward a Metaphor-Body Problem.- 8. Artificial Intelligence and the Natural Body.- 9. Key-Metaphors: A Case of Cross-Contextual Cognition.- 10. Of Mind, Metaphysics and Other Matters.- 11. How to Make Worlds With Metaphors.- 12. Metaphorical Projections of Possible Worlds.- Afterthoughts.- Name Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.12.2010
Reihe/Serie Library of Rhetorics ; 4
Zusatzinfo XVI, 188 p.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
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ISBN-10 90-481-4780-8 / 9048147808
ISBN-13 978-90-481-4780-9 / 9789048147809
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