1st Edition
The Metaphoric Process Connections Between Language and Life
By Gemma Corradi Fiumara
Copyright 1995
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Metaphor is much more than just a linguistic phenomena, argues Gemma Corradi Fiumara, it is in fact the key process by which we construct and develop our ability to understand the world and the people we share it with. Rationality as understood by philosophers has led to a disembodied view of ourselves in which interaction between life and language has been downplayed. By looking at the... Read more
1 Connections between language and life 2 The life of language 3 The interdigitation of fields 4 The oppositional metaphor 5 The maturation of knowledge 6 The relationship between digital and analogic styles 7 Detachment and participation 8 The awareness of metaphoric projections 9 The metaphoric function 10 Vicissitudes of self-formation
Biography
Gemma Corradi Fiumara is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Third University of Rome and a full member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Her writings include Philosophy and Coexistence and The Symbolic Function: Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Language. The Other Side of Language: A Philosophy of Listening was published by Routledge in 1990.
