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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0085-5553
- eISSN
- 1569-1640
- DOI
- 10.1163/156916496X00111
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Abstract
230 From Name to Metaphor... and Back ULLRICH M. HAASE Manchester Metropolitan University "Au lieu de tuer tous les caraibes, il fallait peut-être les séduire par des spectacles, des funambules, des tours de gibecière et de la musique." Voltaire "Gerade, dass kein Wort wörtlich genommen wird, ist diesem Anti- Realisten [Jesus Christus] die Vorbedingung, um überhaupt reden zu können.... Man könnte, mit einiger Toleranz im Ausdruck, Jesus einen 'freien Geist' nennen-er macht sich aus allem festen nichts: das Wort tödtet, alles was fest ist tödtet.... die ganze Realität, die ganze Natur, die Sprache selbst, hat für ihn nur den Wert eines Zeichens, eines Gleichnisses.-" Nietzsche At the outgoing of the twentieth century, where does philosophy go? One way by which this question can be approached consists in a con- sideration of the place of metaphor in philosophy. Consequently we will have to investigate Nietzsche's prophecy: the dissolution of being and of the truth of being in the unrestricted economy of metaphor. As God, the master of metaphor, is dead, everything is allowed; and if one ignores Nietzsche's further elaboration on what is possible, there thus remains nothing to be said. Like a last liberating movement and, in terms
Journal
Research in Phenomenology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1996