Fuor di metafora: visione estetica e ontologia della differenza

Abstract

This contribution is the translation of the first chapter of the second part of Miguel de Beistegui’s Aesthetics After Metaphysics. From Mimesis to Metaphor (Routledge, New York and Oxon 2012). In this section, Beistegui criticizes the apparent unbreakable bond between metaphor and metaphysics, reaching the conclusion that the main critiques that the second half of the 20th century posed against the role of metaphor in philosophy only face a weaken version of this powerful theoretical tool, namely the metaphor as a concept. By drawing attention to the complex Aristotelian definition of metaphor, Beistegui shows that Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze missed the chance for a different use of metaphor, whose, as literature, poetry and visual arts found out, may open the space of the hypersensible.