Metafora kao narativ? Poetika volje (cogito-a) i poetika priča (jezika)
Metaphor as a Narrative? The Poetics of Will (Cogito) and the Poetics of Stories (Language)

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the paper examines the standpoint which claims that the metaphor is intrinsically a certain type of narrative, in the first place. This assumption is purported by the idea that each instance of any kind of linguistic event must be treated primarily as a narrative: no matter if the main focus is placed on metaphors or thought experiments that characterize philosophical line of reasoning. This means that each and every theory on metaphors requires narratives. At the same time, narratives (that is, stories) are being marked as constitutive for the notion of subjectivity, as well as concepts that make up and explicate the said notion of subjectivity. In regards to that, the thing that makes possible Ricœur’s poetics of the will in the first place is nothing but the poetics of the stories. Following that trail, this paper also analyzes and makes a comparison between the thinkers like Derrida, Ricœur, Nietzsche, and Schapp. The argument behind that analysis is that the metaphor is the question of narrative, and not the question of a word (following Derrida), nor is it the question of a sentence (Ricœur). The key thing to understand the scope of this argument is to realize that the narrative goes much farther than the usual inquiries that explicate the subject of the narrative. This also implies that we should make an additional emphasis on language, in order to grasp it in a more ubiquitous and authentic way. At the same time, that also shows the reasons why insisting on a starting position that involves the notion of conscious subjectivity is deeply problematic.

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