Living metaphor

Author: Paul Ricoeur
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book is the third major work by the renowned French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, following The Philosophy of Will and History and Truth. It is a monograph on metaphor. The entire book consists of eight essays, each exploring the relationship and theory between metaphor and semiotics, rhetoric, semantics, poetics, and hermeneutics. The author systematically introduces the perspectives on metaphor from ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato, as well as Western modern philosophers like Heidegger and Wittgenstein, up to modern linguists. From different angles such as vocabulary and sentences, Ricoeur conducts an in-depth and meticulous examination of the eternal mystery of metaphor.