This article works backwards by contextualizing the metaphorical explosion of metaphor, especially in last century or so, and back to Plato Aristotle, who help us see outlines metaphor relation poetics, rhetoric, philosophy politics, as well critical theoretical issues arising subsequently down present age, including views Zoltán Kövecses, Northrop Frye, Paul Ricoeur, Hegel, Shakespeare, Thomas...

negative differentiation, that is, through the repeated assertions of what something is not. Satire repeatedly disavows other discourses: it is not poetry, or rhetoric, or philosophy, even if it parasitically sustains itself on them. Imperial satirists drew on a range of rhetorical resources: technical categories from treatises, actual orations, and the practice speeches of the declaimers. At t...

New results about Poisson-Dirichlet point processes and Derrida-Ruelle cascades allow us to express Guerra’s interpolation entirely in the language of Derrida-Ruelle cascades and to streamline Guerra’s computations. Moreover, our approach clarifies the nature of the error terms along the interpolation.

For the past two decades, the postmodern debates dominated the cultural and intellectual scene in many fields throughout the world. In aesthetic and cultural theory, polemics emerged over whether modernism in the arts was or was not dead and what sort of postmodern art was succeeding it. In philosophy, debates erupted concerning whether or not the tradition of modern philosophy had ended, and m...