Metaphors, Signs, and Parasites: Nietzsche, Peirce, and Two Radical Interpretations of Aristotelian Protosemiotics
2017
Abstrakt
This article aims to compare some selected aspects of Peirce's semiotic with two other distinct but basic viewpoints on metaphor, which are inherently semiotic but not strictly in a Peircean way: Aristotle's analysis of metaphor as perhaps the most important figure of (persuasive and creative) speech in his Poetic and Rhetoric and Nietzsche's accent on the rhetorical/metaphorical and semiotic "non-essential nature" of language and his notion of strictly semiotic structure of thought (in his early Lectures on Rhetoric).