Theatrum Historiae. The Metaphors of J. A. Comenius’ Historical Theory and Narration and their Empirical Context

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Theatrum Historiae. The Metaphors of J. A. Comenius’ Historical Theory and Narration and their Empirical Context

Original language description

This study focuses on several metaphors used by Comenius when discussing history. The first part discusses Comenius’ theory of metaphor. Unlike many noted critics who have dismissed metaphor for its susceptibility to inaccuracies, Comenius advises caution when using this linguistic tool but accepts it. As a theologian, he highly values the metaphorical language of the Bible and its explicatory power. In his rhetorical and philological texts, he adheres to the classical substitution theory of metaphor. However, several (and mainly) Pansophic texts bring up also its cognitive potential. The second part moves from Comenius’ theory to his practice in his historical and metahistorical writings. While in his historical writings he includes common narrative metaphors, in his metahistorical texts, he applies conceptual metaphors that help him to grasp his ideas about the nature and properties of history and historical processes. Coming from the domain of theatre, astrology, theory of vision, optics, and the physics of light, these metaphors present history as something that could be seen and physically experienced. The source domains from which Comenius derives his metaphors refer to fundamental empirical principles dominating seventeenth-century epistemology. By creating these metaphors, history came into lexical proximity with natural philosophy and the discourse of the natural sciences.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-11795S" target="_blank" >GA20-11795S: Historiam videre. Testimony, Experience and the Empirical Evidence in the Early Modern Historiography of the Bohemian Lands</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Comeniana

ISSN

0231-5955

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

35/59

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

9-33

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85148946293