Exploring a Human Being: A Metaphor of terra incognita in Bolesław Miciński’s Journeys to hells in the Perspective of Hans Blumenberg’s Metaphorology
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https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2024.23.06Keywords:
metaphor, journey, terra incognita, subjectivity, Bolesław Miciński, Hans BlumenbergAbstract
The article deals with the process of formulating the subjectivity in Bolesław Miciński’s “Journeys to hells”. The main research tool for the analysis and interpretation of the essay is Hans Blumenberg’s idea of metaphorology. The interpretation is guided by the two thinkers’ shared view of issues concerning philosophical language – both, in their own way, shunned linguistic conceptualization of any sort. Blumenberg’s metaphor of terra incognita, as interpreted by Miciński, is utilized in diverse ways to present the image of the world as well as individual and social dimensions of human existence. The notion of “journey”, a problematic thread of modernity and psychoanalysis allow the author to highlight the imaginative potential inherent in the metaphor itself. Considering the “travelers” significant for Miciński, namely Odysseus and Descartes, as well as a stylistic richness of the analyzed essay, allows for showing that the metaphor of “unknown lands” can be useful in interpretation. The aim of the article aims to present the subjectivity presented in “Journeys to Hell” which, manifesting itself in a metaphorical language distant from discursive counterparts, does not fit into any conceptual forms.
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