The Trap of The Anthropocentric Great Chain of Being Metaphor: The Process of Carnal Reawakening as the Way out (of Metaphor)

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angličtina
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The Trap of The Anthropocentric Great Chain of Being Metaphor: The Process of Carnal Reawakening as the Way out (of Metaphor)
Original language description
The subject of the study is the non-fiction text Becoming Animal by David Abram, in which the key notion of becoming is understood as a way of cultivating heightened sensory awareness and deeper receptivity, enabling humans to attune to the agency of other beings and experience a unifying exchange. Attention is given to the use of metaphors as a first step that has the potential to lead the reader from linguistic representation to the carnal dimension of the world. Through metaphorical language, the reader then can awaken their more subtle perceptiveness and open themselves to the possibility of becoming the Earth, the animal, and a more humble version of man. Only after are they able to disclose that personification metaphors reflect an anthropocentric perspective, leading them to question the metaphorical as-if status and possibly leave the rigid hierarchy of the Great Chain—a longstanding Western metaphorical model that organizes existence in a strict ladder from minerals and plants up to animals, humans, and God. The paper argues that Abram’s metaphors, when taken as literal, destabilize the traditional hierarchical model. The theoretical approaches applied in the paper are conceptual metaphor theory and new materialist insights.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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