ON THE “POWER” OF METAPHOR
ON THE “POWER” OF METAPHOR
Author(s): Petra PodobnikarSubject(s): Editorial
Published by: Slovensko sociološko društvo (in FDV)
Keywords: Friedrich Nietzsche; metaphors; metaphors in social and political sciences;
Summary/Abstract: In “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”, Nietzsche proposes that truth and concepts only exist metaphorically: What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten are illusions ... metaphors that are worn out and without sensuous power; coins that have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins (Nietzsche 1986).
Journal: Družboslovne razprave
- Issue Year: 31/2015
- Issue No: 80
- Page Range: 7-9
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English
