Metafora revelatorie – semnificație și interpretări

In his conception about metaphors, Lucian Blaga introduces two concepts in order to place metaphor in a philosophical perspective: revelatory and plasticizing (manufactory) metaphors. They contribute to knowledge and to man’s being, perception of the world and apprehension of the world in different ways. The main difference becomes clearer by reference to the Blagian conception regarding the philosophy of man living in the horizon of mystery and revelation. At the same time, these two types of metaphors are discussed in connection to the two types of knowledge proposed by Lucian Blaga, luciferian and paradisaic knowledge and, as well, with the signifying and trans-signifying myths. All these forms emerge from man’s confrontation with mystery. Manufactory metaphors “do not increase the meanings of facts to which they refer” and they “put together more or less similar facts.” The revelatory metaphor is characteristic for human beings living in the horizon of mystery and reveals something previously hidden about the reference signified and signal man’s becoming as a symptom of a unique existence within the horizon of mystery.