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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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60204 - General literature studies

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

e-ISSN

2571-032X

Svazek periodika

12

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

136-147

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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