The debate between metaphor theorists and conceptual historians has been intensifying in recent years. This article takes this debate beyond the bias toward Blumenberg's metaphorology, and starts from the interaction view of metaphor as formulated by Max Black. The article opens with a theoretical framework that reformulates Black's notions of metaphorical resonance and emphasis. It adapts them to the requirements of Conceptual History, and adds a third, historical criterion for metaphoricity. It then applies these suggestions to the history of the metaphor play/game/Spiel/jeu within twentieth-century political thought. Here, the focus lies on the role this metaphor plays in the conceptual relations between the ideas of political order, conflict, and immanence.
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In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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Seeing Yourself in the Past
The Role of Situational (Dis)continuity and Conceptual Metaphor in the Understanding of Complex Cases of Character Perception
Maarten Coëgnarts, Miklós Kiss, Peter Kravanja, and Steven Willemsen
specific and local level. Note 1 The names of the authors of this contribution are put in alphabetical order. 2 On the relationship between embodied cognition and situation models, albeit without making reference to conceptual metaphor theory, see also
Rob Boddice, Christian J. Emden, and Peter Vogt
’s influential “conceptual metaphor theory” and instead connect a philosophical account of metaphor with a historical approach (35). The theory of metaphor, in other words, is empty if it disregards the historical contingency of the metaphors themselves. Focusing
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- Book Review
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- 133–146
Robert Sinnerbrink and Matthew Cipa
the explanation of image schemas, and stands as a challenge to the propositional view of meaning, which suggests that meaning is embedded solely in language. In an attempt to overcome this idea, the authors draw upon Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT
Fragmentation in International Law and Global Governance
A Conceptual Inquiry
Timo Pankakoski and Antto Vihma
of fragmentation is “deeply rooted in epistemology and conceptual history" 44 The conceptual and metaphorical aspects of fragmentation cannot be fully separated. Modern metaphor theory has established that metaphoric structures direct our most
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- 22–48
Kata Szita, Paul Taberham, and Grant Tavinor
to heart that “feeling disorientated” is a kind of method, as the tumble of metaphors, theories, and references in the following pages leads to precisely the “phenomenologically imprecise encounter” that is promised (5). These claims also give a sense
Clarifying Liquidity
Keynes and Marx, Merchants, and Poets
Rolf Hugoson
's Analysis of Modernity , ed. Mark Davis (London: Routledge, 2016), 1–12, here 1. 4 Paul Ricœur, The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language , trans. Robert Czerny (1975; London: Routledge, 2003), 357–9. If the dialogue between metaphor
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Research Article
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- 46–66
How Motion Shapes Thought in Cinema
The Embodied Film Style of Éric Rohmer
Maarten Coëgnarts
.g., Gibbs 2005 ; Kövecses 2010; Lakoff and Johnson 1999 ). Probably the most famous and influential theory in this regard is the above-cited conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) of Lakoff and Johnson (1980 , 1999 ). Central to this theory is the idea that
Marc Kropman, Carla van Boxtel, and Jannet van Drie
, 2003), 14–20. 17 George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980). 18 In conceptual metaphor theory, small capitals are conventionally used to designate metaphors. 19 Mike Hanne, “An Introduction to the
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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