The Multiple Uses of Metaphor

Authors

  • Filippo Contesi University of Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-9251/19759

Keywords:

analogy; imagination; metaphor; method of abstraction

Abstract

Metaphor has often been seen as tightly associated with both aesthetics and cognition, as well as with other aesthetic and cognitive phenomena such as imagination, symbol, allegory, analogy and simile. This article offers a theory of metaphor that accounts for such aesthetic and cognitive associations. The theory is based on a suitably interpreted version of a tool originally developed in an epistemic context, viz. Floridi and Sanders’ method of abstraction.

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Published

2023-01-26

How to Cite

Contesi, F. (2023). The Multiple Uses of Metaphor. Itinera, (24). https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-9251/19759

Issue

No. 24 (2022): Dante and Comics.

Section

varia

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