Metaphor and Metaphilosophy
Philosophy as Combat, Play, and Aesthetic Experience
By (author) Sarah A. Mattice
Publication date:
08 October 2014Length of book:
166 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9780739192207
Sarah A. Mattice explores contemporary philosophical activity and the way in which one aspect of language—metaphor—gives shape and boundary to the landscape of the discipline. The book examines metaphors of combat, play, and aesthetic experience and emphasizes how the choices we make in philosophical language are deeply intertwined with what we think philosophy is and how it should be practiced. Drawing on a broad range of resources, from cognitive linguistics and hermeneutics to aesthetics and Chinese philosophy, Mattice's argument provides insight into the evolution and future of philosophy itself.
Readers of Mattice's book will learn much and will be left with much to think about.