| Aspects of Metaphor Contributor(s): Hintikka, Jaakko (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9048143853 ISBN-13: 9789048143856 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Epistemology - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics |
| Dewey: 121.68 |
| Series: Synthese Library |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.85 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked but at the same time most poorly understood concepts in philosophy and literary theory. In recent years, several interesting approaches to metaphor have been presented or outlined. In this volume, authors of some of the most important new approaches re-present their views or illustrate them by means of applications, thus allowing the reader to survey some of the prominent ongoing developments in this field. These authors include Robert Fogelin, Susan Haack, Jaakko Hintikka (with Gabriel Sandu), Bipin Indurkhya and Eva Kittay (with Eric Steinhart). Their stance is in the main constructive rather than critical; but frequent comparisons of different views further facilitate the reader's overview. In the other contributions, metaphor is related to the problems of visual representation (No l Carroll), to the open class test (Avishai Margalit and Naomi Goldblum) as well as to Wittgenstein's idea of a way of life' (E.M. Zemach). |