Cholanyuk V.R. The “living metaphor” of Paul Ricœur and its anthropological priorities in interpretation

Abstract: This article represents a research of anthropological content of the “living metaphor” associated with hermeneutics of the “world of texts” in the theory of a prominent French scholar and philosopher Paul Ricœur. The subject of the research is the intelligible nature of the “living metaphor” delivered by the narrative intrigue, the anthropological vector of which is interpreted in the timely correspondence. Thus the article makes an attempt to introduce the anthropological importance of the “living metaphor” through the number of symbolic episodes in the texts of Paul Ricœur, in which the problematics of the world and the essences are suggested as an interpreting subject. The methodology of the research consists in the modern perspective and philosophical interpretation of the additional conceptual meanings of the text with regards to the anthropological understanding of the “living metaphor” phenomenon within the Paul Ricœur’s heritage. The author comes to the conclusion about the anthropological priorities in the “living metaphor” study in the aspect, where the metaphoric discourse is a referential moment between the initial understanding of the world of action which complies with the acquired by civilization human experience, and refiguration of the daily reality by the virtue of fluent language activity in a form of intrigue.

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