隐喻与真理——论布鲁门伯格的哲学隐喻学

Metaphor and Truth:On Blumenberg’s Philosophical Metaphorology

布鲁门伯格(Hans Blumenberg)的隐喻学研究将隐喻从作为修辞学术语、演讲说服技巧的角色中解放出来,通过对绝对隐喻的历史性功能和实用功能的发掘,揭示出隐喻思维在概念活动中处于优先于理智的基础阶段,隐喻作为概念、真理活动的基础是哲学话语始终无法摒弃的基本组成部分。布鲁门伯格通过对隐喻与概念、真理关系的考察,将概念、真理活动的基础回溯到人类的实际生活,这样就宣告了笛卡尔在哲学上摒弃形象语言,最终抵达纯粹逻辑、概念的清晰性、确定性计划的局限性,他的哲学隐喻学是对启蒙理性的反思与批判。

Hans Blumenberg’s study of Metaphorology liberates metaphor from its role as a rhetorical term,a persuasive technique of speech,and reveals,through the discovery of the historical and pragmatic functions of absolute metaphor,that metaphorical thinking is in a fundamental stage of conceptual activity that takes precedence over reason,and that metaphor as the basis of conceptual,truth activity is a fundamental component of philosophical discourse that can never be abandoned.By examining the relationship between metaphor and concept and truth,Blumenberg traces the basis of conceptual and truth activities back to the actual life of human beings,thus declaring the limitations of Descartes’philosophical abandonment of figurative language in order to arrive at a pure logic,conceptual clarity,and definitive plan,and his philosophical metaphorology is a reflection and critique of Enlightenment reason.