L’objectif de cette thèse est de penser le voyage en tant que métaphore absolue de l’existence dans les œuvres de Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944), Adonis (né en 1929) et Roberto Mussapi (né en 1952). Le thème du voyage, commun à ces trois auteurs, est ici étudié travers leur œuvre critique ou théorique, mais surtout poétique. Cette étude prend appui sur les théories du philosophe allemand Hans Blumenberg, et plus précisément sur la métaphorologie, discipline dont il a posé les bases. La thèse étudie le voyage sous ses différentes formes : la navigation maritime, l’envol, l’errance sur la terre, enfin le feu – qui correspondent aux quatre éléments et dessinent les grands axes d’une géographie mentale des auteurs. Il s’agit ainsi d’explorer les différentes potentialités du voyage, réel aussi bien que métaphorique. Le voyage par le feu, étudié dans la dernière partie, correspond à un dépassement des voyages placés sous le signe des trois autres éléments : métaphore de la mort, il pose la question du destin de l’individu dans l’au-delà. Il apparaît alors que l’élément liquide lui aussi peut intervenir pour poser la question des fins dernières : la figure du naufrage comme métaphore de la mort revêt une également une importance capitale pour nos poètes ; la métaphorologie de Blumenberg en fournit une interprétation particulièrement éclairante. Le voyage se révèle dès lors être aussi un thème propre à démontrer l’existence d’une « sagesse poétique », par opposition à l’approche conceptuelle des philosophes. Alors que le philosophe se tient sur la rive et observe de loin le naufrage, le poète est celui qui, par la poésie, fait l’expérience du naufrage et tente de la formuler. Notre thèse se présente donc aussi comme une réflexion sur l’emploi proprement poétique des mythes et des métaphores ; elle vise par là à rétablir le lien entre le logos philosophique et le mythos poétique, traditionnellement opposés. / The set objective of this thesis is to present the travel as the ultimate metaphorical interpretation of life and existence in the works of Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944), Adonis (1929) and Roberto Mussapi (1952). Through their critical and theoretical essays and particularly through their poetic works, we decipher their own perception of travel. This analysis is based on concepts defined by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg and particularly his theory of ‘metaphorology’. Navigating the elements of land, sea, air and fire – these four quintessential pillars of man’s ‘mental map’– we ultimately discover the different possibilities of the real travel as well of the metaphorical one, a travel which ultimately gets shipwrecked. This work is as much a reflection on the travel as it is a ‘reconstruction’ of the poetic journey. While exposing its most preferred constructs, the myths enriching them and its scope in relation to universal knowledge, the travel becomes not only a metaphor of our existence but also the looking-glass through which ‘poetic wisdom’ becomes revealed. This thesis suggests connecting links between the philosophical “logos” and poetical “mythos”, two traditionally opposing sides with the resulting conclusion that life is indeed a journey and man is its helpless and bound traveler.

Die Arbeit unternimmt den Versuch, Melvilles Moby-Dick als einen Vorboten postmoderner Literarizität in den Blick zu nehmen, der in seiner Autoreferentialität den eigenen textuellen Status kritisch-ironisierend reflektiert und Sprache als einen krisenhaften Zugang zu Welt und Kosmos ins Spiel bringt. Sie legt dar, dass Melvilles opus magnum ein im Verlaufe der abendländischen Philosophie epistemologisch und semiologisch virulent gewordenes Krisenbewusstsein vom "Phantasma der Umfassung der Wirklichkeit" (Lyotard) einerseits auf inhaltlicher und andererseits autoreferentiell auf der Ebene der écriture inszeniert. Entsprechend wird davon ausgegangen, dass die vom Text absorbierten Diskurse in ihrer schieren Vielzahl nicht als partikulare Bezüge hermeneutisch isoliert werden können, sondern stattdessen in ihrer Heterogenität selbst die zentrale Problematik illustrieren, in deren Dienst sie als konstitutive Elemente stehen: Statt positiven Sinn zu stiften, verunmöglichen sie jegliche interpretatorische Direktive und verweisen dadurch auf eine dem Roman inhärente negative Dimension von Sinn – sie sind also vielmehr Bestandteile eines verhandelten Problems als dessen Lösung. Nicht nur in den cetologischen Abschnitten des Romans – gleichwohl dort am offenkundigsten – lässt sich Melvilles spielerisch-dekonstruktiver Umgang mit westlichen Wissens- und Denkmodellen erkennen: Dringt man in ahabischer Manie(r) in das semantische Feld des Romans auf der Suche nach einem letzten Grund, einer inferentiellen Letztbegründung, gerät man in einen infiniten regressiven Strudel, der jede getroffene semantische Arretierung auf die Bedingungen ihrer Möglichkeit hin befragt und dadurch wieder aufbricht. Eine ishmaelische Lektüre des Moby-Dick bestünde darin, den Anspruch auf Letztbegründetheit im Sinne der différance Derridas aufzuschieben und sich damit der Gravitation eines transzendentalen Signifikats zu entziehen. Liest man die cetologischen Kapitel vor diesem Hintergrund, kann man in ihnen – so eine der zentralen Thesen der Arbeit – eine autoreferentielle Kontrastfolie erkennen, eine negative Exemplifikation dessen, wie sich der Moby-Dick nicht erfassen lässt: gewissermaßen eine Lektüreanleitung ex negativo. Wesentliche Merkmale der Melvilleschen écriture sind Ambivalenz, Parodie und Dialogizität. Er verwendet stilistische und motivische Versatzstücke, destruiert sie und unterläuft so permanent die Ernsthaftigkeit der den Roman strukturierenden Schicksalszeichen wie auch die interpretativen Anstrengungen des Lesers. Die Autorität des eigenen Diskurses wird ironisch unterminiert und der Text damit in einer Schwebe zwischen Parodie und Monomanie, Unabschließbarkeit und Universalanspruch gehalten. Als die figurativen Kraftfelder dieser konkurrierenden Paradigmen stehen Ahab und Ishmael auf der Handlungsebene personifizierend für die paradoxe Konstellation des gesamten Textes, der nicht die Auflösung oder Aufhebung seiner konfliktiven Elemente sucht, sondern als ästhetischer Ausdruck des Paradoxen feste Orientierungspunkt vorenthält. Anstatt beide Figuren und die ihnen zugrundeliegenden epistemologischen Strategien antagonistisch in Opposition zueinander zu stellen, begreift diese Arbeit sie als komplementäre Elemente eines romantischen Metatextes, der sie in eine konfliktive Rezeption einfasst. In Analogie zum Konzept der romantischen Ironie Friedrich Schlegels wird Ahab hierbei als prototypischer Allegorisierer begriffen, wohingegen Ishmael als Ironiker für die Relativierung derartig monomanischer Kraftakte steht – zwischen Anspannung und Abspannung, Unbedingtem und Bedingtem baut sich jene Dynamik auf, die den gesamten Text durchwaltet. Im Sinne der romantischen Universalpoesie ist der Moby-Dick nicht auf einen systemischen Abschluss hin orientiert, sondern besteht auf/aus seiner Unabschließbarkeit: Heterogenität, Inkonsequenz, Verworrenheit und mitunter Unverständlichkeit sind demnach keine Folgen kompositorischer Nachlässigkeit, sondern in ihrer Gesamtheit als das performative Moment der eigentlichen Mitteilung zu begreifen.

Ce travail examine le problème de l'exploration, tel qu'il se présente dans les chroniques de voyage qui ont forgé la cartographie du monde moderne entre la Renaissance et les Lumières, en privilégiant l'analyse des enjeux épistémologiques entre le nouveau et l'inconnu. A travers une lecture de ce corpus portant sur l'Amérique et des spéculations géographiques et politiques sur le continent austral, il montre, d'une part, que dans ces textes un régime de spatialité trouve son instance inaugurale ; de l'autre, que l'histoire de celui-ci est aussi celle de la philosophie elle-même, pour autant qu'elle s'est conçue sur le modèle d'une exploration dans la tradition baconienne jusqu'au XVIIIème siècle chez D'Alembert. Il montre l'ancrage historique des images géographiques ainsi que la continuité entre la production de savoir et la production d'un espace à découvrir au sein des voyages d'exploration, face auxquels, contrairement à la métaphorologie blumenbergienne, l'archéologie foucaldienne trouve une limite. Puis, il interroge l'horizon de sens anthropologique de l'exploration, en particulier à travers la polémique de la présence d'une espèce d'hommes géants au Nouveau Monde, et examine l'appropriation scientifique de cette figure littéraire, dans l'histoire naturelle d'Acosta à Buffon. Enfin, après un regard sur le rapport ambigu entre les usages de la thèse du vieillissement du monde et l'ouverture épistémologique des objets possibles de l'exploration, il propose une analyse de la centralité de la gigantum demonstratio au sein du programme philosophique de Vico. / This study examines the issue of exploration, as it stands in the travel chronicles that have forged modern world cartography between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, favouring the analysis of epistemological questions between the new and the unknown. Through an examination of this corpus about America, and the geographical and political speculation about the Southern Land, it shows, on the one hand, that a regime of spatiality begins with these texts; on the other, that its history is also the history of philosophy, as far as it conceived itself on the model of exploration in the baconian tradition until D’Alembert in the 18th century. It identifies the historical foundation of geographical images used in the modern thought, as well as continuity among knowledge production and the production of a space to discover by exploration travels, about which, unlike Blumenberg’s metaphorology, Foucault’s archaeology founds a limit. Then, it questions the exploration’s anthropological horizon of meaning, particularly by the controversy of a giant human species in the New World, and examines the scientific appropriation of this literary figure in the natural history from Acosta to Buffon. Lastly, after a look on the ambiguous relation between the ageing world thesis and the epistemological openness of possible objects of exploration, it proposes an analysis of the importance of the gigantum demonstratio in Vico’s philosophical program.

[pt] No presente trabalho pretendo analisar as profundas mudanças que ocorrem no Ocidente Medieval do século XII e que foram notadas por Haskins como uma forma distinta de Renascimento. Bem como essas são representadas dentro do conjunto de textos satíricos, os Carmina Burana. Para isso mobilizarei um esforço, em um primeiro momento, para compreender a formulação do conceito de Renascimento Cultural, que é estabelecido em seus devidos contornos por Jakob Burckhardt e é utilizado por Haskins para pensar uma era de rompimentos e fluidez sociais, que eram atípicas a uma sociedade ligada a estabilidade que uma cultura agrária, conforme nos mostrou Ernst Gellner, possuía. Essa discussão de caráter historiográfico é importante para percebermos o momento de formulação de um conceito bem definido e totalmente explicativo e de outro modo apresentar uma instabilidade que não desmerece as formulações de 70 anos de historiografia, mas compreender uma outra via de explicação do real-passado que não age pela via conceitual, mas por uma outra via formativa da linguagem, isto é, a Metáfora. Dentro dessas compreensões pretendo levar, por um caminho híbrido, um esforço para demonstrar a formatividade desses versos, sua ambiência e como eles, por certa via, dão conta de uma experiência de real e assim demonstrar minha hipótese principal de ter nos textos risíveis dos Carmina Burana uma forma metafórica de construção de um conhecimento sobre o passado. / [en] In this paper we analyze the profound changes taking place in the twelfth century Medieval West and were noted by Haskins as a distinct form of Renaissance. And these are represented within the set of satirical texts, Carmina Burana. For this mobilizarei an effort, at first, to understand the formulation of the concept of Cultural Renaissance, which is established in their proper contours by Jakob Burckhardt and is used by Haskins to think an era of breakups and social fluidity, which were atypical to a company linked to stability that an agrarian culture, as we showed Ernst Gellner, possessed. This discussion of historiographical character is important to realize the time to formulate a well-defined concept and fully explanatory and otherwise present an instability that does not diminish the formulations of 70 years of history, but to understand another way of real-last explanation does not act via the conceptual, but another via formation of language, that is, the metaphor. Within these understandings intend to take, by a hybrid way, an effort to demonstrate the formativeness these verses, their surroundings and how they, in some way, realize a real experience and thus demonstrate my main hypothesis have the laughable texts of Carmina Burana a metaphoric way of building knowledge about the past.

[pt] Frequentemente os termos morte de Deus, fim da poética e dessacralização são associados à ideia de Modernidade que constrói uma nova explicação do mundo e, a seu turno, porta ideia de superação de um tempo mítico. Com efeito, a relação entre poética ficcional e secularização é ambígua e ambivalente. Se a secularização opera uma aparente marginalização do poético e do mito-teológico (por julgar sua capacidade de enunciação provisória), ela também pode ser concebida como um modo de apropriação de ambos na tentativa de sanear e superar suas deficiências enunciativas. O projeto cartesiano excluía a provisionalidade da linguagem metafórica enquanto construtora de uma imagem de mundo para pôr em seu lugar a inequivocidade de uma linguagem instrumental. Se tal projeto de superação caminhou em direção à sua concretização, em que consistira, contemporaneamente, a reflexão de Heidegger ao se apropriar da poesia de Holderlin: para quê poetas?. A sua conclusão requer uma indissolubilidade entre o poético e o teológico enquanto agentes não capturados pela razão técnico-científica. Pode a poética, enquanto linguagem metafórica, dizer algo sobre o humano ou sobre Deus? Ela possui ferramentas propícias para sustentação de uma imagem de mundo? Aqui, emerge a problemática da Teopoética, seja vista como apropriação ficcional do conceito de Deus, seja concebida como uma potência narrativa criadora do divino, como possibilidade de superar a hiperespecialização tão comum na Modernidade. As tentativas de refletir sobre o humano e seu lugar no mundo, muitas vezes em um contexto já de suposta secularidade realizada, choca-se nos próprios limites da razão técnico-científica. Poderia o espaço do poético - e, com ele, do mito-teológico – superar uma normatividade? O que se está em jogo ultrapassa uma mera virtualidade poética para se lançar numa efetividade política. A reflexão heideggeriana fornece novas perspectivas para uma valoração e entendimento substancial do papel heurístico desempenhado pelo universo da ficção. Revigorando, ou restabelecendo, o senso de poiésis, as reflexões de Nietzsche e Heidegger parecem corroborar para definir o espaço que o poeta (ficcionalista) ocupa na sociedade, revertendo o estatuto ético platônico. Ao afirmar que o humano tem o desejo recôndito de fazer da literatura vida (numa espécie de apropriação do Dasein heideggeriano), o escritor José Saramago parece oferecer veredas para um entendimento da poesia não apenas como criadora de novos valores, mas como a própria forma de enunciar o humano como consciência de si e no conhecimento da alteridade. Poetas em tempos indigentes, para além de indicar uma volta aos tempos míticos, fornecem o campo propício para a ruptura da dogmatização que petrifica o mito em términos categoriais e resgata, como afirma Hans Blumenberg, a sua liberalidade metafórica. Permitir a repovoação do mundo pelos deuses faz do poeta o legislador platônico por excelência que, rejeitando o estabelecimento de uma perspectiva totalitária, busca abarcar a existência humana numa profusão de possibilidades e amplia o horizonte do entendimento da poesia/ficção como instrumento heurístico, capaz de pensar soluções e romper com o estatuto da realidade absoluta do qual, inclusive, o conceito de Deus tornou-se refém. / [en] Often the terms death of God, end of poetics and desecration are associated with the idea of Modernity that builds a new explanation of the world and, in turn, bears the idea of overcoming a mythical time. Indeed, the relationship between fictional poetics and secularization is ambiguous and ambivalent. If secularization operates an apparent marginalization of the poetic and the myth-theological (considering its provisional enunciation capacity), it can also be conceived as a way of appropriating both in an attempt to heal and overcome their enunciative deficiencies. The Cartesian project excluded the provisionality of metaphorical language as a constructor of an image of the world in order to put in place the unambiguity of an instrumental language. If such a project of overcoming went towards its realization, what did Heidegger s reflection consist of, contemporarily, appropriating Holderlin s poetry: what are poets for?. Its conclusion requires an indissolubility between the poetic and the theological as agents not captured by technical-scientific reason. Can poetics, as a metaphorical language, say something about the human or about God? Does it have the right tools to support an image of the world? Here, the problematic of Theopoetics emerges, either seen as a fictional appropriation of the concept of God, or conceived as a creative narrative power of the divine, as a possibility to overcome the hyperspecialization so common in Modernity. The attempts to reflect on the human and its place in the world, often in a context of supposedly accomplished secularity, clash with the very limits of technical-scientific reason. Could the space of poetics - and, with it, the myth-theological - overcome a normativity? What is at stake goes beyond a mere poetic virtuality to launch itself into political effectiveness. Heidegger s reflection provides new perspectives for a substantial appreciation and understanding of the heuristic role played by the universe of fiction. Invigorating, or reestablishing, the sense of poiesis, the reflections of Nietzsche and Heidegger seem to corroborate to define the space that the (fictionalist) poet occupies in society, reversing the Platonic ethical status. When affirming that the human has the hidden desire to make life from literature (in a kind of appropriation of Heideggerian Dasein), the writer José Saramago seems to offer paths for an understanding of poetry not only as a creator of new values, but as the very form to enunciate the human as its own self-awareness and in the knowledge of otherness. Poets in destitute times, in addition to indicating a return to mythical times, provide the propitious field for the breakdown of dogmatization that petrifies myth in categorical terms and rescues, as Hans Blumenberg says, its metaphorical liberality. Allowing the repopulation of the world by the gods makes the poet the quintessential Platonic legislator who, rejecting the establishment of a totalitarian perspective, seeks to embrace human existence in a profusion of possibilities and broadens the horizon of understanding poetry / fiction as a heuristic instrument, capable of thinking about solutions and breaking with the absolute reality statute, of which inclusively the concept of God has become hostage.

The paper discusses the lexical representation of the metaphorical image of Russia formed in the discourse of the committees of the 116th and 117th US Congress (2019-2022). The object of the study is the political discourse of the US Congressional committees. The goal of the study is to characterize the image of Russia reflected in the materials of the 116th and 117th US Congress. The research material consists of 244 documents posted in the public domain on the official website of the US Congress. From these documents, 2058 lexical units were selected for analysis. The analysis showed that the most common types of metaphors are the military, the metaphor of immoral behavior, the metonymic model «RUSSIA – PUTIN» and the criminal metaphor. It was also revealed that the confrontation between the USSR and the USA during the Cold War still plays a significant role in understanding modern Russia. In analising the discursive characteristics, a correlation was established between the dynamics of metaphorical discourse and events in Russian-American relations. / The paper discusses the lexical representation of the metaphorical image of Russia formed in the discourse of the committees of the 116th and 117th US Congress (2019-2022). The object of the study is the political discourse of the US Congressional committees. The goal of the study is to characterize the image of Russia reflected in the materials of the 116th and 117th US Congress. The research material consists of 244 documents posted in the public domain on the official website of the US Congress. From these documents, 2058 lexical units were selected for analysis. The analysis showed that the most common types of metaphors are the military, the metaphor of immoral behavior, the metonymic model «RUSSIA – PUTIN» and the criminal metaphor. It was also revealed that the confrontation between the USSR and the USA during the Cold War still plays a significant role in understanding modern Russia. In analising the discursive characteristics, a correlation was established between the dynamics of metaphorical discourse and events in Russian-American relations.

[pt] Este trabalho apresenta e analisa a estreita proximidade entre Poesia e História que se torna a base e o método de escrita dos ensaios poéticos de Octavio Paz. O poeta trata a história como um lugar da poesia. Isso mobiliza a categoria metódica que é comum ao fazer historiográfico, para dentro do terreno da ficcionalidade. Qual será o impacto na mobilização da poesia e de seu terreno como método para a escrita da história? Uma vez que a história está sempre tensionada entre ficção e verdade, a narrativa crítica sobre o passado é submetida à verdade? Se a poesia é sempre insurgente à verdade, a força resultante é destrutiva e favorável em relação à História. Se por um lado a concatenação de forças que as múltiplas imagens do passado evocadas por Paz permitem uma proximidade com o passado, por outro, um breve momento de lucidez destitui a verdade da centralidade do discurso historiográfico e a atuação do ensaio permite um procedimento historiográfico que represe essas imagens em torno de um sentido, não mais factual e teleológico, mas voltado para o acontecimento e os múltiplos sentidos que a realidade pode ter. / [en] This work presents and analyzes the close proximity between Poetry and History that becomes the basis and method of writing Octavio Paz s poetic essays. The poet treats history as a place of poetry. This mobilizes the methodical category that is common in historiographical work, into the realm of fiction. What will be the impact on the mobilization of poetry and its terrain as a method for writing history? Since history is always tensioned between fiction and truth, is the critical narrative about the past subjected to truth? If poetry is always insurgent to the truth, the resulting force is destructive and favorable in relation to History. If, on the one hand, the concatenation of forces that the multiple images of the past evoked by Paz allow a proximity to the past, on the other hand, a brief moment of lucidity deprives the truth of the centrality of the historiographical discourse and the performance of the essay allows a historiographical procedure that represent these images around a sense, no longer factual and teleological, but turned to the event and the multiple meanings that reality can have.