Zu einer geschichtlichen Reflexion über die Metapher

Abstract

The article expounds Jean Gebser’s views on the use of adjective through the history of the West. Starting from Gebser, it proposes a historical interpretation of metaphor on two levels, poetic practice and theoretical reflexion. The analysis contains examples from Classical Antiquity and old German poetry to the present, under special consideration of Spanish Baroque. Modern metaphor is characterized by the absence of analogy, which poses aesthetic and gnoseological problems and argues for a computer-assisted reformulation of Poetics.