Literature/1978/Sacks

Editor

 * Sheldon Sacks
 * Founding Editor, Critical Inquiry, University of Chicago

Overview
On Metaphor, a collection of fourteen essays by eminent philosophers, literary critics, theologians, art historians, and psychologists, illustrates and explores a striking phenomenon in modern intellectual history: the transformation of metaphor from a specialized concern of rhetoricians and literary critics to a central concept in the study of human understanding. These lively and provocative essays probe the nature, function, and meaning of metaphor and collectively demonstrate the multidisciplinary implications of the concept.

Because of its comprehensive scope, the volume is useful both as a resource for those interested in contemporary philosophy and theories of language and as a text for courses in such areas as the philosophy of language, critical theory, and the philosophy of knowledge. Originally published as a special issue of Critical Inquiry, the present collection includes two new contributions by Max Black and Nelson Goodman, along with a comprehensive index to the work. 

Contents

 * Table of Contents

Special Issue: On Metaphor
 * Ted Cohen: "Metaphor and the Cultivation of Intimacy"
 * Paul de Man: "The Epistemology of Metaphor"
 * Donald Davidson: "What Metaphors Mean"
 * Wayne C. Booth: "Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation"
 * Karsten Harries: "Metaphor and Transcendence"
 * David Tracy: "Metaphor and Religion: The Test Case of Christian Texts"
 * Richard Shiff: "Art and Life: A Metaphoric Relationship"
 * Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner: "The Development of Metaphoric Competence: Implications for Humanistic Disciplines"
 * Paul Ricoeur: "The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling"

AFTERTHOUGHTS ON METAPHOR


 * W. V. Quine: "A Postscript on Metaphor"
 * Don R. Swanson: "Toward a Psychology of Metaphor"
 * Karsten Harries: "The Many Uses of Metaphor"
 * Wayne C. Booth: "Ten Literal 'Theses'"

CRITICAL RESPONSE


 * Margaret Schaefer: "Psychoanalysis and the Marionette Theater: Interpretation Is Not Depreciation"
 * Heinz Kohut: "A Reply to Maragaret Schaefer"

Kenneth Burke: "A Critical Load, Beyond That Door..."