Paul Ricoeur

The Rule of Metaphor

The Creation of Meaning in Language

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Produktbeschreibung

A fruitful and insightful study of how language affects how we understand the world, this book is also an indispensable work for all those seeking to retrieve some kind of meaning in uncertain times.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780415312806
• ISBN-10: 0415312809
• Artikelnr.: 21304704

Autorenporträt

Paul Ricoeur (1913-). One of the world's major philosophical thinkers, Professor Emeritus of the University of Paris X (Nanterre) and of the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's introduction Introduction Study 1/Between Rhetoric and
Poetics: Aristotle 1. Rhetoric and Poetics 2. The intersection of the
Poetics and the Rhetorics: 'Epiphora of the name' 3. An enigma: metaphor
and simile (eikôn) 4. The place of exis in rhetoric 5. The place of lexis
in poetics Study 2/The decline of rhetoric: Tropology 1. The rhetorical
'model' of tropology Fontainer: the primacy of idea and of word 3. Trope
and figure 4. Metonymy, synecdoche, metaphor 5. The family of metaphor 6.
Forced metaphor and newly invented metaphorStudy 3/Metaphor and the
semantics of Discourse 1. The debate between semantics and semiotics 2.
Semantics and rhetoric of metaphor 3. Logical grammar and semantics 4.
Literary criticism and semantics Study 4/Metaphor and the Semantics of the
word 1. Monism of the sign and primacy of the word 2. Logic and linguistics
of denomination 3. Metaphor as 'change of meaning' 4. Metaphor and the
Saussurean postulates 5. Between sentence and word: the interplay of
meaning Study 5/Metaphor and the new rhetoric 1. Deviation and rhetoric
degree zone 2. The space of the figure 3. Deviation and reduction of
deviation 4. The functioning of figures: 'semic' analysis Study 6/The work
of resemblance 1. Substitution and resemblance 2. The 'iconic' moment of
metaphor 3. The case against resemblance 5. Psycholinguistics of metaphor
6. Icon and image Study 7/Metaphor and reference 1. The postulates of
reference 2. The case against reference 3. A generalized theory of
denotation 4. Model and metaphor 5. Towards the concept of 'metaphorical
truth' Study 8/Metaphor and Philosophical Discourse 1. Metaphor and the
equivocalness of being: Aristotle 2. Metaphor and analogia entis:
onto-theology 3. Meta-phor and meta-physics 4. The intersection of spheres
of discourse 5. Ontological clarification of the postulate reference
Appendix Notes Works cited Index of authors