Resumen de È possibile una teoria heideggeriana della metafora? Oltre l’energetismo e il cognitivismo
Is a Heideggerian Theory of Metaphor Possible? Beyond Energetics and Cognitivism. The metaphor is traditionally considered the queen of figures of speech, the most creative among them. Such creativity manifests itself in its capacity to intercept similarities that are not banal; on what dimension, though? According to Aristotle, and a long tradition that still gathers widespread consensus, the similarities are found in actuality. However, in his 1954 fundamental article Max Black claims that at the very least there is the possibility that the similarities are invented. On what, then, do they rest? Retrieving Heidegger’s work on The Thing (1950), and drawing inspiration from his argument that the artisan, crafting a jug, shapes the void, this article extends such a perspective to the metaphor, even though Heidegger himself disregarded it due to his perceiving the metaphor as tied to metaphysics. The dominance of possibility – and of relationships – on empirical reality justifies the definition offered here: the metaphor as «queen of the void». Likewise, it legitimizes an Heideggerian conception of the metaphor, one that is able to free it from the constraints of metaphysics.
