This book examines the relationship between metaphor, art and science against the backdrop of modern European philosophy and, in particular, the work of Kant, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.
This book examines the relationship between metaphor, art and science against the backdrop of modern European philosophy and, in particular, the work of Kant, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.
Clive Cazeaux is Reader in Aesthetics at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. He is the editor of The Continental Aesthetics Reader (Routledge, 2000), and the author of articles on metaphor, phenomenological aesthetics, and the relation between art and knowledge.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kant and Heidegger on the creation of objectivity
2. The power of judgment: metaphor in the structure of Kant's third Critique
3. Sensation, categorization and embodiment: Locke, Merleau-Ponty, and Lakoff and Johnson.
4. Heidegger and the senses
5. Conflicting perspectives: epistemology and ontology in Nietzsche's will to power
6. Cutting nature at the joints: metaphor and epistemology in the science wars
7. Opening and belonging: between subject and object in Heidegger and Bachelard
8. Metaphor and metaphysics in Heidegger, Ricoeur and Derrida
