Metaphors in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy.

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.

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