Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:38:32 +0000
Subject: Re: Method
From: "Michael Pennamacoor" <pennamacoor-AT-enterprise.net>


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Hen recently:

> Indeed the rigmarole RE metaphor in a current discussion, 
>which by the way Paul Ricoeur spent too many years thinking about and writing 
>clearly about to be ignored, cf, Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the 
>Surplus of Meaning, La mtaphore vive.
>
>Ricoeur, the spiraling philosophical amoeba, pays tribute to analytic 
>philosophy and manages to tuck it within a heideggerian critique of 
>representationalism by way of his phenomenology of metaphor. 

Hen, can you elaborate on Ricoeur's "phenomenology of metaphor" (cannot afford to buy the
text at the moment, but having no wish to ignore)? I'm having a hard time trying to think
the metaphoricity of philosophical discourse (I'm only armed with Derrida's text on
Levinas for now... and that is difficult enough). That being exceeds any metaphoricity is
something I'm attuned to, but how that relates to a conception of a 'literal'
philosophical discourse I'm not at all sure of... Perhaps the opposition
literal/metaphorical is not a 'proper' binary opposition...

The rigmarole is my attempt at just dancing (spinning, quaking, pogoing): I can dance to
the early Stones, Bach and Joy Division but...

Help?

michaelP

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