Friday, June 26, 2009

Thought for the Day: Hannah Arendt on Metaphor

Metaphors are the means by which the oneness of the world is poetically brought about.

Hannah Arendt, “Introduction: Walter Benjamin 1892-1940,” in Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin, trans. Harry Zohn, ed. Hannah Arendt (NY: Shocken, 1969), p. 14.