Rainer Godel

Die Untersuchungen in diesem Band hinterfragen den Wandel von statischen hin zu dynamischen, »verzeitlichten« Ordnungsschemata naturkundlichen Wissens, der sich im historischen Prozess der ... mehr

Using the example of Johann Gottfried Herder, this article aims at a functional history of ›metaphor‹. In Herder’s theory of language, metaphors on the one hand represent the phenomenon of the ›inexplicitness‹ of language: According to Herder, human beings can never achieve unambiguousness because of the specific human conditions they cannot avoid. On the other hand, and this is an aspect where Hans Blumenberg came very close to Herder, metaphors do enable people to solve communicative issues just because they are indeterminate and open. mehr