The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language

✍ Scribed by Paul Ricoeur

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 465
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 affects how we understand the world, and is also an indispensable work for all those seeking to retrieve some kind of meaning in uncertain times.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Between rhetoric and poetics: Aristotle......Page 19
The decline of rhetoric: Tropology......Page 60
Metaphor and the semantics of discourse......Page 85
Metaphor and the semantics of the word......Page 128
Metaphor and the new rhetoric......Page 168
The work of resemblance......Page 215
Metaphor and reference......Page 266
Metaphor and philosophical discourse......Page 314
APPENDIX......Page 383
NOTES......Page 393
WORKS CITED......Page 445
INDEX......Page 458