La pragmática productividad conceptual de la metáfora. El «giro diafórico» en Blumenberg y Rorty

Abstract

Metaphor is very much more than just a linguistic or basically literary phenomenon. It is an interactive and interpersonal process that fundamentally shapes our ways of reasoning and of experiencing the world. The metaphoric process is the process of a pragmatic concept production. Therefore the philosophical thought cannot get rid of metaphor: metaphor is to be interpreted in its literalness. Metaphorology presupposes a pragmatic model according to which concepts (and philosophical discourses) emerge as effects of the on-going work of metaphor. The understanding of metaphor as a pragmatic tool is a crucial presupposition for Blumenberg’s work and is the very method of Rorty’s neopragmatism. Their eventual methodological antagonism nevertheless does not hinder to consider both thinkers as protagonists of a same «diaphoric turn».