Verrycken, Koenraad. <br/><br/>
Metaphors in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (299 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789057181849 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History -- Philosophy.<br/>Philosophy.<br/>Philosophy, Modern.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D16.8 -- .C665 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>901