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Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself'. Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the world we perceive, it is a fruitful and insightful study of how language
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Paperback, 464 pages
Published
August 21st 2003
by Routledge
(first published January 1st 1975)
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I’ve finished the rule of metaphor—a book whose conclusions re: philosophy and metaphor are—one must use a metaphor—enlightening. One can take from this work of philosophy the fact of the necessary failure of philosophy which is an effect of the failure of language, the inability of language to articulate even once the thing the speculative philosopher desires, attempts to articulate. Metaphor is the conduit from the known to the unknown. Metaphor always erases what it writes as it writes,
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I've decided that Ricoeur is more of a meta-rhetorician, a philosopher of rhetoric in the sense that unlike many other rhetoricians and semioticians, he doesn't do any hard low level analysis himself. He may analyze terms, other's uses of terms, and with encyclopedic mastery, run the gambit of tearing through collected works of so many others to pull the threads he needs to weave a larger discourse, but he almost never takes you through line by line synthesis and application. Stranger too, he
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The first time I read this book 1998-99 I read it badly and did not realize until I was more than half way through that I had read it badly. so I started from the beginning again and realized how important it was for me, especially with Time and Narrative.
But it was key for my understanding of use of language as the biblical canon developed over more than a millennia.
I see it as a key book for understanding theological hermeneutics. Along with Ricoeur's use of Frank Kermode' concept that the end ...more
But it was key for my understanding of use of language as the biblical canon developed over more than a millennia.
I see it as a key book for understanding theological hermeneutics. Along with Ricoeur's use of Frank Kermode' concept that the end ...more
Hard going, but presented in a reader friendly manner, really I only ploughed on through as this book forms a pair with the Time & Narrative volumes, which is where more of my interest really lies.
Check: 'predication' + 'syntagmatic' + a host of literary terms.
Get the most out of this linked collection of studies by reading the original texts that Ricoeur covers.
Fascinating to follow the development of his argument, stretching from Aristotle up to more contemporary treatments of metaphor.
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Check: 'predication' + 'syntagmatic' + a host of literary terms.
Get the most out of this linked collection of studies by reading the original texts that Ricoeur covers.
Fascinating to follow the development of his argument, stretching from Aristotle up to more contemporary treatments of metaphor.
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The Rule of Metaphor is a sequence of eight studies which begins with the history of rhetoric, moves into an analysis of metaphor, a reflection on the nature of language, before offering an entire redescription of speculative discourse and the nature of reality.
Most works of philosophy begin with profound observations before subsiding into repetitions of lesser themes. Ricoeur accomplishes the reverse by beginning with interesting exegesis of Plato that eventually culminates in a potentially ...more
Most works of philosophy begin with profound observations before subsiding into repetitions of lesser themes. Ricoeur accomplishes the reverse by beginning with interesting exegesis of Plato that eventually culminates in a potentially ...more
I love Ricoeur and enjoyed his take on metaphor in his slim volume "Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning", and I'm interested in the Cognitive Linguistic take on metaphor, so I hope to read this as well. Actually, Gary Holland recently did an analysis of skaldic kennings using Cog Ling metaphor theory, and my dissertation is all about skaldic poetics, so it could be that this whole area is a chapter waiting to be concieved. I'd better read fast.
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Well, I'm sure this book is better than I rated it, but it rather exposed my lack of philosophical training. Still, despite really following about half of it, I found it a very useful review of the development of metaphor theory from Aristotle to the mid-twentieth century. I learned quite about about new (to me) philosophers like Max Black and French schools of thought.
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Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished philosophers of the twentieth century. In the course of his long career he wrote on a broad range of issues. His books include a multi-volume project on the philosophy of the will: Freedom and Nature: The Voluntary and the Involuntary (1950, Eng. tr. 1966), Fallible Man (1960, Eng. tr. 1967), and The Symbolism of Evil
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