A Touchy Subject: The Tactile Metaphor Of Touch
The article proposes an interpretation of metaphors and metaphoric discourse through the perspective of touch. The article first deals with metaphors of touch in the history of western philosophy (especially traditional metaphysics from Plato to Hegel) in order to produce an operative category of to...
Main Author: | Mirt Komel |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Ljubljana
2016-09-01
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Series: | Družboslovne Razprave |
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Online Access: | http://druzboslovne-razprave.org/clanek/pdf/2016/82/7/ |
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