Abstract Nathan tells David a story about rich man who takes and kills poor man’s lamb (2 Sam 12:1–4). This, it turns out, is figurative for David’s own deeds of killing Uriah the Hittite taking his wife. The its application suggest intersecting power dynamics between groups: poor, male female, native foreigner—and, crucially, human nonhuman. This article argues that intersectional analysis sho...

Although Merleau-Ponty’s privileging of Cézanne in the context his philosophy painting does not explicitly address painter’s relation to literature, this is important and somewhat problematic. was an avid reader both classical Latin contemporary French but he sought, maturity, dissociate from inspiration literature. The danger a mode figurative informed by literature explored Balzac’s novella U...

The Metaphorical Brain Long considered a peripheral topic in linguistics, metaphor is increasingly viewed as a central feature of higher cognition and abstract thought. Investigation of the neural substrate of metaphor has, similarly, become more sophisticated, involving increasingly specific suggestions about the processes involved in its comprehension. This Frontiers Research Topic brings tog...

In this theoretical paper figurative aspects of algebraic symbolism are discussed and related to the theory of image schemata, opening up for one way of understanding the development of symbol sense in mathematics. The ideas of mathematical forms (referring to spatial characteristics of mathematical formulas), and form operations, are at the core of this analysis.