Heidegger and Derrida on Philosophy and Metaphor
Subtitle: Imperfect Thought (Philosophy and Literary Theory)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781573928243
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Metaphor; Derrida, Jacques; Heidegger, Martin; Philosophy; Epistemology; History & Surveys - Modern; 1889-1976; Heidegger, Martin,; Semantics (Philosophy)
First sentence: Not "Metaphor in Philosophy," nor "Theory of Philosophical Metaphor," not even "Metaphors in Heidegger and Derrida," but-simply-"Philosophy and Metaphor": What moves the present work is the fateful conjunction of two unlikely partners (unlikely, that is, as soon as one closely examines them and their relationship).
Description: "In Heidegger and Derrida on Philosophy and Metaphor, continental philosopher Giuseppe Stellardi focuses on the relationship between metaphor and philosophy through an exploration of three separately identifiable but strictly interconnected thematic directions: the theory of metaphor, the theory of philosophical discourse, and a close analysis of text by Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida for what they reveal about both metaphor and philosophical discourse.".

"Stellardi also includes a discussion of the fundamental debate on metaphor between Derrida and Paul Ricoeur and a detailed examination of philosophy as a "mode of discourse" among (and in relation to) others. The result is an idea of philosophy as essentially imperfect and self-destructive, and yet indispensable in the economy of the modes of discourse."--BOOK JACKET.