Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

by Richard Handler

Book Overview

Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles presents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785337513
• ISBN13: 9781785337512
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 6.0"