Review article
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.57.3.5
Light, World and Truth in Context of Blumenberg's Metaphorology
Ante Periša
; University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Alen Tomić
; Ivan Meštrović Secondary School Drniš, Drniš, Croatia
Abstract
In this article the author considers Light as a model and paradigm that we use when thinking and speaking about the most difficult issues such as about God, World, Truth, Being, Man, Sense of the World or Life, Good and Evil... If we make only a very short overview of the basic concepts in the history of philosophy, theology and art, obviously the importance of the light-metaphor arises already by the (implicate) construction of our worldview and any possibility to talk about it. Hans Blumenberg in his first study about metaphor analyses the metaphor of light and introduces the concept of “absolute metaphor” for the kind of metaphors that, because of their encompassment and the richness of the sense and meaning, can never be “translated” into the literal expressions and concepts. We can see the metaphor of light everywhere in our western thought. And the concepts Truth and the World in this title are both connected with the concept of Light, because truth is shining and shows itself (illuminatio), and the word “svijet” (“world”) in Croatian comes etymologically directly from the word (adjective) “svijetao” (bright, light).
In the last part of the article we present the role of light in the Gothic architecture, that reflects the relation between theology and light in the Middle Ages.
Keywords
absolute metaphor; cognition; light; truth; Gothic architecture
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281812
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Publication date:
26.9.2022.
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