Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This essay examines key images presented in the works of the following philosophers: Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Emmanuel Levinas; the central notion is that certain images are employed in order to express vital points of the thinkers’ works and, arguably, act as Existential artefacts in their own right. Existentialist thought employs such images because of a rhetorical constraint or limitation of language which is not explicitly recognised or elaborated within the works themselves. Further, it is maintained that the imaginative aspect of Existentialism articulates an essentially metaphorical approach to the world. Finally, it is considered how this tension between the expression of philosophic positions and the image relates to concepts.
Source: DergiPark (Istanbul University)
Author: Mılburn, Joseph Thomas
Institution: Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4281784468