Metaphor and Continental Philosophy

Clive Cazeaux is Reader in Aesthetics at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. He is the editor of The Continental Aesthetics Reader (Routledge, 2000), and the author of articles on metaphor, phenomenological aesthetics, and the relation between art and knowledge.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Kant and Heidegger on the creation of objectivity2. The power of judgment: metaphor in the structure of Kant’s third Critique3. Sensation, categorization and embodiment: Locke, Merleau-Ponty, and Lakoff and Johnson.4. Heidegger and the senses5. Conflicting perspectives: epistemology and ontology in Nietzsche’s will to power6. Cutting nature at the joints: metaphor and epistemology in the science wars7. Opening and belonging: between subject and object in Heidegger and Bachelard8. Metaphor and metaphysics in Heidegger, Ricoeur and DerridaNotesBibliographyIndex