Metaphors in Action
Humanities, Medicine and the Digital World
Series: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress;
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 24 April 2026
- ISBN 9783032122124
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XII, 224 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color. 700
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Through a transdisciplinary lens, this book offers a unique description of how metaphors inform our conceptual system and shape our world accordingly. Metaphors in action means marking a break from conventional methodologies: observing metaphors as they operate reveals how conceptual mappings serve as interpretive tools, directing perception, limiting reasoning patterns, and either enabling or hindering comprehension in practical situations. This collection guides through an exploration of how metaphors exhibit consistency with the cultural contexts and value systems from which they emerge. We examine metaphor as a ""semantic network"", a framework that immediately suggests new pathways for generating alternative ontological possibilities. This book explores the role and significance of metaphors and the landscapes they shape in five disparate fields: philosophy, linguistics, law, health and digital technologies. This volume is an invaluable resource for students and researchers in philosophy, health sciences, psychology, and the digital humanities.
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Chapter 1 Metaphors in action. An introduction.- Section I: Metaphors in Philosophy, Linguistics and Law.- Chapter 2 The miracle of metaphor. Attraction and impelence in the expressive and intellectual dynamic of the metaphor as estrangement and recognition.- Chapter 3 Image energetics: metamorphosis and metaphors in Gaston Bachelard.- Chapter 4 The Cognitive Value of Metaphors in the Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce.- Chapter 5 Natorp’s Psychology and metaphor as possibilities of understanding consciousness.- Chapter 6 A normative imagery. Legal metaphors between Islam and the West.- Section II: Metaphors, Health and Digital Technologies.- Chapter 7 Between the Visible and the Invisible. The Role of Metaphor in Dreaming.- Chapter 8 The opacity of the body and the light of metaphors.- Chapter 9 Body and Metaphor: an ethnography of the transformation of people with terminal cancer.- Chapter 10 “What is it that I am missing?” A Phenomenological Exploration of Metaphors in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.- Chapter 11 The power of metaphors and metaphors of power. Some notes from social media.- Chapter 12 From forbidden death to digital ghosts: metaphors of death in the age of digital culture.
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