PH0181 Philosophical Theories of Metaphor

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Dr. phil. Jakub Mácha, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 11:40–13:15 A44
Prerequisites
familiarity with English, familiarity with German will be an advantage
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/35, only registered: 0/35, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/35
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
After the completion of the course the students will have become familiar with philosophical conceptions of metaphor starting with Aristotle up to now; they will understand the primary literature and interpret it independently.
Syllabus
  • 1. What it is metaphor? Dead – vital metaphor, examples of metaphors in philosophy and poetry.
  • 2. Aristoteles (Poetika, Praha 1996, 1457b, 1459a; Rétorika, Praha 1999, 1406b-1413a)
  • 3. Cicero (De oratore, 3.38.156-7), Quintilianus (Institutio oratoria, VIII 6, 8-9; T. de Aquin (Summa theologica, I, 1, 9 & I, 13, 6)
  • 4. Hobbes (Leviathan I, kap. IV Of Speech & kap. V Of Reason and Science), Locke (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, III, kap. X, par. 34), Mill (A System of Logic, V, kap. 5, § 7), de Man, Paul: „The Epistemology of Metaphor“. In: Sacks, Sheldon (ed.): On Metaphor. Chicago 1979, 11-28.
  • 5. Rousseau (Essay on the Origin of Languages, in J.H. Moran and A. Gode (eds) On the Origin of Languages, New York: University of Chicago Press, 1966; příp. in V. Gourevitch (ed.) The First and Second Discourses together with the Replies to Critics, New York: Harper & Row, 1986.) Herder („Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache“. In: Sturm und Drang. Weltanschauliche und ästhetische Schriften. Bd. 1 & 2, Berlin & Weimar: Aufbau, 1978. Bd. 1, S. 173-5.
  • 6. Kant („Kritik der Urteilskraft“. In: Kants gesammelte Schriften. Akademie-Ausgabe. Berlin 1900ff. Bd. 5. S. 351ff. [§ 59. „Von der Schönheit als Symbol der Sittlichkeit“])
  • 7. Nietzsche („Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn“. In: Werke in drei Bänden. München: Hanser, 1954)
  • 8. Richards (The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936, Kap. ), Black (a) „Metaphor“. In: Models and Metaphors, studies in language and philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1962. (b) „More about Metaphor“. In: Ortony, Andrew (ed.): Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge 1979.
  • 9. Searle (Searle, John: „Metaphor“. In: Ortony, Andrew (ed.): Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge 1979)
  • 10. Davidson (a) „What Metaphors Mean“. In: Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. Oxford 2001. S. 245-264 (b) Black, Max: „Black, Max: „How Metaphors Work: A Reply to Donald Davidson“.“.
  • 11. Ricoeur („The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling“. In: Sacks, Sheldon (ed.): On Metaphor. Chicago 1979. S. 141-157.)
  • 12. Blumenberg (Paradigmen zu einer Metaphorologie. Bonn 1960; Horyna: Teorie Metafory, Olomouc 2007)
  • 13. Conclusion
Literature
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Aristotelis De arte poetica liber (Orig.) : Poetika [Aristoteles, Svoboda, 1996]. info
  • Texty budou dostupné v~e-lerningovém systému na začátku semestru.
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Poetika ; Rétorika ; Politika. Edited by Aristotelés - Marta Zágoršeková, Translated by Miloslav Okál - P. Poetika 2., preprac. vyd., R. Bratislava: Tatran, 1980, 278 s. info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Poetik : griechisch und deutsch. Leipzig: Philipp Reclam, 1979. info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Poetika. Praha: Orbis, 1962. info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Poetika : o básnické tvorbě. Translated by Antonín Kříž. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Jan Laichter, 1948, 123 s. URL info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Aristotelova poetika. V Praze: Společnost přátel antické kultury, 1929. info
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
an essay in the extent of 2500 words, oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Teacher's information
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