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Metaphor as Lexis: Ricoeur on Derrida on Aristotle

Ancient Greek Gods And Lore Revisited Pdf

Offering new perspectives to think about what directions the ecological turn could take in classical studies, it revisits old material, including ancient Greek religion and mythology, with central concepts of contemporary environmental theory. Always a new generation to whom the ancient stories must be told; and the author has spent pleasant hours in trying to retell some of them for the boys and girls of to-day. He remembers what joy it was to him to read about the Greek gods and heroes; and he knows that life has been brighter to him ever since because of the.

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Both Derrida and Ricœur address philosophy’s relation to metaphor, and both take Aristotle as their starting points. However, though Ricœur’s The Rule of Metaphor is largely a response to Derrida’s “White Mythology,” Ricœur seems to pass right over Derrida’s critically important interpretation of Aristotle. In this essay, I dispel concerns that Ricœur may have been intellectually irresponsible in his engagement with Derrida on this point, and I demonstrate how Study 1 makes better sense as a detailed response to Derrida.

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Jacques Derrida, “La Mythologie Blanche,” Marges de la Philosophie (Paris: Les éditions de minuit, 1972).

Jacques Derrida, “White Mythology,” Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1972).

Jean-Claude Monod, “La mise en question contemporaine du paradigme aristotélicien — et ses limites,” Archives de Philosophie 70.4 (2007): 535-558.

Bernard Harrison, “‘White Mythology’ Revisited: Derrida and His Critics on Reason and Rhetoric,” Critical Inquiry 25.3 (1999).

Rodolphe Gasché, “On ‘Tropic’ Movements and Syntactic Resistance in Derrida’s White Mythology, International Yearbook for Hermeneutics 13 (2014).

Leonard Lawlor, “Dialectic and Iterability: The Confrontation between Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida,” Philosophy Today 32.3 (1988).

Leonard Lawlor, “A Little Daylight: A reading of Derrida’s ‘White Mythology,’” Man and World 24 (1991).

Paul Ricoeur, The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language, trans. Robert Czerny (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979).

Stephen Halliwell, The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2002), 374-376.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2020.494
Copyright (c) 2020 Sean Donovan Driscoll
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