RETORYCZNE DZIEDZICTWO ANTROPOLOGII
THE RHETORICAL HERITAGE OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of the relationship between rhetoric and contemporary philosophical anthropology. The main point of reference is the work of Hans Blumenberg. The reconstruction of anthropological assumptions referring directly to the rhetorical tradition will be complemented by an analysis of his program of metaphorology – a discipline that studies the logic of preconceptual cognition. The concept of man as a being characterized by a deficiency – both biological deficits and the contingency of existence – leads to an interesting paradigm shift in understanding anthropology itself Since homo defectus depends on the provisional knowledge of the world and himself, anthropology should give up cognitive perfectionist claims and turn to the study of the metaphorical resources of language that determine both philosophical discourse and colloquial language.

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