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The “Ontological Vehemence” of the Metaphor: A Style of Life and Another Manner to Create Worlds

Summary/Abstract: The inadequacy of the theories of the tropes and the fluctuation between ontological (the constituent originality of the tropes) and phenomenological (the discourse effects, the interpretation) captures, and thus the lack of a general theory with a capacity to reconcile the linguistic, cognitive and pragmatic aspects of the tropes explain the continuation of the study on metaphoric processes. The principles made by Paul Ricœur, in La Métaphore vive participate in this renewal of the analysis of the metaphor. The French philosopher not only acknowledges the changes that have occurred in the semantic theory as opposed to the tradition of classical rhetoric, but he also opens new perspectives to reflection on what he names the “ontological vehemence” of the metaphor. If the metaphor implies thinking, it is a thought which is without any concepts, or at least one in which affects, percepts and concepts in the sense Deleuze gives these terms. Even if Deleuze’s ontology is quite different from that of Ricœur, while being fundamentally diacritical, relational and experimental, the conceptions of the metaphor of both philosophers meet through the underlining of the metaphorical dimension that this figure may have whenever it is vivid. Both consider the metaphor as the result of a “poietic” (poiésis) act the ambition of which is to re-describe the real: it opens a new field of intelligibility and experience for the one who elaborates it as well as the one who interprets it.

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