Light, Brooms, and Drops of Oil on Thick Paper: Cusanus' Everyday Metaphors: A Suggestion for their Typology
Year: 2025
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Successful metaphors are not necessarily bound to the extraordinary. They may also emerge from the profanities of everyday life. In Cusanus’ work, different sorts of metaphors fulfill a particular role in the philosophical or theological argument. Thus, the kinds of metaphors Cusanus uses have to be scrutinized, and, in particular, his remarkable employment of many and manifold metaphors of everyday life. The article aims at developing a preliminary and tentative typology of everyday metaphors in Cusanus’ work that might also be valid for metaphor-usage from different times and regions.
Source: Metaphor papers
DOI: 10.46586/mp.389.462
Author: Knut Martin Stünkel
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4409375929