On the meaning of metaphor in Gadamer's hermeneutics

Research in Phenomenology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 196-209

  Vedder, Ben ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33747150531     PISSN: 00855553     EISSN: 15691640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15691640260490638     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Hans Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, trans. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall, 2nd rev. ed. (London: Sheed & Ward, 1989), 474. (Gadamer's emphasis); hereafter cited as TM. G. Marshall, 2nd rev. ed. (London: Sheed & Ward, 1989), 474. (Gadamer's emphasis); hereafter cited as TM
2. Joel Weinsheimerhilosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1991), 64ff
3. Hereafter cited as PH. The insight that hermeneutic language is metaphorical is also stressed by James Risser, Die Metaphorik des Sprechens, in Hermeneutische Wege: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundertsten, ed. Günter Figal, Jean Grondin, und Dennis J. Schmidt (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000), 177-89. metaphorical is also stressed by James Risser, "Die Metaphorik des Sprechens", in Hermeneutische Wege: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundertsten, ed. Günter Figal, Jean Grondin, und Dennis J. Schmidt (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000), 177-89
4. Of particular importance here is Paul Ricoeur's book on metaphor, upon which my own analysis relies: Paul Ricoeur, La métaphore vive (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1975). Hereafter cited as MV. which my own analysis relies: Paul Ricoeur, La métaphore vive (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1975). Hereafter cited as MV
5. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962), 56. Hereafter cited as BT. Robinson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962), 56. Hereafter cited as BT
6. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Gesammelte Werke, bd. 8, Ästhetik und Poetik (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1993), 32
7. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Schriften I (Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1960), 520
8. Richard Kearnyoetics of Imagining: From Husserl to Lyotard (London Harper Collins Academic, 1991), 134-69
9. Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language Interpretation Action and Interpretation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 181
10. Paul Ricoeur, Du Texte à l'action, Essau d'hermeneutique II (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1986), 218
11. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Gesammelte Werke, bd. 2, Hermeneutik II (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1986), 51
12. Paul Ricoeur, "Stellung und Function der Metapher in der biblischen Evangelische Theologie Sprache", in Paul Ricoeur, Eberhard Jüngel, Metapher: Zur Hermeneutik religiöser Sprache, Sonderheft Evangelische Theologie, (München: Kaiser Verlag, 1974), 45
13. Paul Ricoeur, Temps et Récit I (Paris: Éditions du Seuil 1983), 13
14. Richard Kearnyoetics of Imagining, From Husserl to Lyotard, 152
15. Paul Ricoeur, "Stellung und Function der Metapher in der biblischen Sprache", 45