Writing in Water / Ins Wasser schreiben: Studies in the Epistemology of Metaphor / Studien zur Epistemologie der Metapher

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Borislav Mikulić
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6230-0397

Synopsis

The book contains a collection of historical and systematic studies on metaphors and related topics, in German and English, that were first drafted as initial elaborations of the author's research project on the historical and systematic philosophy of language at the University of Tübingen in two periods (1992–1994 and 1996–1999). About half of the essays have been published before in some form but for this edition they have been improved upon or revised to fit better with the book as a whole. The groundwork for this collection was laid in the mid-1990s by the first review paper, written in Croatian, devoted to the topic.

The papers collected in this volume are only in German and English. Grouped in sections, they do not represent different language versions of the same text but provide individual elaborations of interrelated topics in German or in English. Each begins with different problems of both historical and systematic nature and each ends, hopefully, by contributing new points to their respective topic. As a result, every chapter can be read either as an alternative to the paper it is paired with in the respective section or as a supplement to other texts.

Chapters

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • SECTION I. PARADOXES OF METAPHOR APPRAISALS
  • 01. Reassessing the All-Pervasiveness Assumption of Metaphors
  • 02. Rationalität und Allpräsenz von Metaphern. Einige Nachfragen
  • SECTION II. PRACTICE OF METAPHOR
  • 03. Metaphorizing Politics or How To Hide the Obvious
  • 04. ‘Ins Wasser schreiben’. Platons Schriftkritik im Phaidros und ihre metaphorische Selbstauflösung
  • SECTION III. IDENTIFYING METAPHOR
  • 05. ‘Theòs metaphérōn’. Literal Metaphors, Paradigms and the Dialectical Turn of Metaphysics in Plato
  • 06. Defining Metaphor. Aristotle, Hermogenes of Tarsus, and the Stereoscope-Metaphor of Metaphor
  • 07. Die Wahrheit über Theodor. Zum linguistischen Prinzip von Aristoteles’ Metaphertheorie
  • SECTION IV. LOGIC AND LINGUISTICS OF METAPHOR
  • 08. Family Disturbances. Metaphors, Similes, and the Role of ‘Like’
  • 09. Freche Prädikation. Zu Satzform, Bedeutung, Wahrheitswert und Interpretation von Metaphern
  • SECTION V. TROPOLOGICAL QUARRELS OVER PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE
  • 10. Modelle oder Metaphern? Anmerkungen zur ‘Übertragung’ in Philosophie und Wissenschaft
  • 11. Paradigms and ‘Little Nephews’. Some Lichtenbergian Re-Visions of Kuhn and Wittgenstein
  • 12. Literarität der Philosophie. Zu Habermas’ Kritik an Derrida und der ‘welterschließenden’ Funktion der Sprache
  • Bibliography / Literaturverzeichnis
  • Previous Publications / Publikationsnachweise
  • Index

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Author Biography

Borislav Mikulić, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

Full professor at the Department of philosophy (retired October 2022). His research and teaching areas include history of philosophical ideas, especially epistemology of knowledge, philosophies of language (contemporary and historical), philosophical semiology, theories of discourse and ideology, philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis, and the comparative history of Western and Indian philosophical traditions.
He is author, editor, and co-editor of several books on different topics in contemporary hermeneutic, neostructuralist, and critical marxist philosophy. He also translates philosophical works from German, English, French, and Italian, and writes essays on social, political and cultural phenomena.
(For a full CV and bibliography see https://filoz.ffzg.unizg.hr/nastavnici/borislav-mikulic/)

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Redovni profesor na Odsjeku za filozofiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu, gdje radi od 2001. do umirovljenja u 2022. godini.
Područja istraživanja i predavanja: epistemologija, filozofska semiologija i historijska filozofija jezika, teorije diskursa i ideologije, filozofija psihoanalize, povijest zapadne filozofije te komparativna historija filozofskih ideja (evropska i indijska).
Objavljuje znanstvene radove u stručnim publikacijama i zbornicima radova te prijevode literature iz humanističkih znanosti s njemačkog, engleskog, francuskog i talijanskog. Od 1991. djelovao i kao publicist (Treći program Hrvatskog radija, Novi Danas, Nedjeljna Dalmacija, Arkzin, Slobodna Dalmacija, Forum.tm)

Writing in Water / Ins Wasser schreiben

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svibnja 17, 2023

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978-953-379-061-9

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2023