Seneca's developed metaphors draw on what is known to describe the
unknown. They put hard ethical in highly accessible, and often
quite entertaining, terms. The present book provides a functional
description of Seneca's dialectical relation between metaphorical
language and philosophy. It shows how Stoic philosophy finds a new
means of expression in Seneca's highly elaborated rhetorical
discourse, and how this relates to the social and cultural demands
of Neronian culture. Metaphors are purposely utilized to work
"collectively" rather than by category or type and that, therefore,
the analysis of what metaphors do when Seneca chooses to combine
them in clusters, demonstrates the existence of a "metanarrative of
rhetoric". This approach is fundamentally innovative and has the
advantage of gauging the functioning of Senecan style as a whole,
rather than focusing on single features of its rhetorical
functioning. The main target is to show how philosophical preaching
materially contributes to the healing of human soul because it
shapes the individual's cognitive faculty in a way that is physical
and not simply figurative. The stylus and the scalpel blend in
their functions. This kind of therapy is not just the simulacrum of
a more "real" one, it is in itself medical in nature.
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