From a Metaphorical Point of View: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Cognitive Content of Metaphor (Philosophie Und Wissenschaft, Bd 7)

It has become commonplace that a specific feature of an age or era be explained in terms of "revolution". Presently, we seem to be experiencing different sorts of revolutions, "social" and "sexual", "scientific" and "cybernetic", "probabilistic" and "genetic", "telecommunicational" and "computational", and so on. Taking into account the proliferation of metaphor in theoretical fields of all kinds, its profound impact and importance, perhaps we can find sufficient justification for the inauguration of the "metaphoric revolution". 1. From Clothing To Organ Of Reason: An Essay On The Theories Of Metaphor In German Philosophy In The Age Of Enlightenment / Tanehisa Otabe -- 2. Experiments With Metaphors: On The Connection Between Scientific Method And Literary Form In Francis Bacon / Christiane Schildknecht -- 3. Metaphor And Reference / Catherine Z. Elgin -- 4. Metaphor As Rearranging The Furniture Of The Mind: A Reply To Donald Davidson's What Metaphors Mean / Eva Feder Kittay -- 5. The Container Metaphor Of Anger In English, Chinese, Japanese And Hungarian / Zoltan Kovecses -- 6. Neuronal Processes Of Creative Metaphors / Earl R. Maccormac -- 7. An Artificial Intelligence Approach To Models And Metaphor / Eileen Cornell Way -- 8. Imagery And Metaphor: The Cognitive Science Connection / Arthur I. Miller -- 9. How To Make Our Ideas Clear With Metaphors / Zdravko Radman -- 10. Metaphors In Science And Education / Gerald Holton -- 11. Metaphor In Science / Janet Martin Soskice And Rom Harre -- 12. What Is Wrong With Talking Of Metaphors In Science? / Eleonora Montuschi -- 13. Metaphors In The Scientific Laboratory: Why Are They There And What Do They Do? / Karin Knorr Cetina -- 14. Models, Metaphors And Truth / Mary Hesse -- 15. The Motive For Metaphor / Ernan Mcmullin -- 16. Search For The Daimon, Pact With The Devil And Fight Of Gods: On Some Metaphors Of Goethe In Max Weber's Sociology / Jose M. Gonzalez Garcia -- 17. The House As Metaphor / Francesca Rigotti. Edited By Zdravko Radman. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Contents Preface Introduction Part One: A History of Philosophy Perspective 1. From “Clothing” to “Organ of Reason“: An Essay on the Theories of Metaphor in German Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment 2. Experiments with Metaphors: On the Connection between Scientific Method and Literary Form in Francis Bacon Part Two: A Semantic Perspective 3. Metaphor and Reference 4. Metaphor as Rearranging the Furniture of the Mind: A Reply to Donald Davidson’s “What Metaphors Mean” 5. The “Container” Metaphor of Anger in English, Chinese, Japanese and Hungarian Part Three: A Cognitive Science Perspective 6. Neuronal Processes of Creative Metaphors 7. An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Models and Metaphor 8. Imagery and Metaphor: The Cognitive Science Connection 9. How to Make Our Ideas Clear with Metaphors Part Four: A Philosophy of Science Perspective 10. Metaphors in Science and Education 11. Metaphor in Science 12. What is Wrong with Talking of Metaphors in Science ? 13. Metaphors in the Scientific Laboratory: Why are they there and what do they do? 14. Models, Metaphors and Truth Part Five: A Theological, Sociological and Political Perspective 15. The Motive for Metaphor 16. “Search for the Daimon”, “Pact with the Devil” and “Fight of Gods”: On Some Metaphors of Goethe in Max Weber’s Sociology 17. The House as Metaphor Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Author Index Subject Index

All societies are constructed, based on specific rules, norms, and laws. Hence, all ethics and morality are predicated on perceived right or wrong behavior, and much of human culture proves to be the result of a larger discourse on vices and virtues, transgression and ideals, right and wrong. The topics covered in this volume, addressing fundamental concerns of the premodern world, deal with allegedly criminal, or simply wrong behavior which demanded punishment. Sometimes this affected whole groups of people, such as the innocently persecuted Jews, sometimes individuals, such as violent and evil princes. The issue at stake here embraces all of society since it can only survive if a general framework is observed that is based in some way on justice and peace. But literature and the visual arts provide many examples of open and public protests against wrongdoings, ill-conceived ideas and concepts, and stark crimes, such as theft, rape, and murder. In fact, poetic statements or paintings could carry significant potentials against those who deliberately transgressed moral and ethical norms, or who even targeted themselves.

German philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment, as is well known, held an ideal of "clarity and distinctness" and attacked the "obscure" metaphor of the Baroque. No detailed description available for'From a Metaphorical Point of View'.