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Document Details : Title: La référence vive Subtitle: La visée ontologique de la référence métaphorique chez Ricœur entre Frege et Husserl Author(s): SARACINO, Roberto Journal: Etudes phénoménologiques - Phenomenological Studies Volume: 10 Date: 2026 Pages: 111-137 DOI: 10.2143/EPH.10.0.3295009 Abstract : The metaphorical reference disclosed by poetic discourse gives Ricoeur’s hermeneutics an ontological claim, as argued in The Living Metaphor. While imagination provides poetry with an 'increase of being' projected onto the everyday experience of the world, metaphorical predication enables a subsequent 'seeing as' that does not refer to the world as it ordinarily appears, but as an original horizon of belonging which is revealed through the imagination, as Ricoeur further explains in his recently published Lectures on Imagination. According to Ricoeur, the referential function enacted by poetic metaphor follows the same logical articulation expressed by Frege in On Sense and Reference: a 'world of the text' is projected as referent through the mediation of the poem as a whole unity of sense. In this paper we first want to assess the limitations resulting from the adoption of Frege’s logical structure within Ricoeur’s hermeneutics; secondly, we suggest that Husserl’s phenomenological structure of signification exposed in the first Logical Investigation provides hermeneutics with a more suitable foundation for an ontology originating from metaphorical reference and through the frame of imagination, thus allowing a better-grounded development of the world of the text through its correlation with the world of experience. |
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