Las dos grandes metáforas del mundo de la vida. Pensando a Blumenberg desde Steinbock

This article offers a metaphorological interpretation of phenomenology based on two fundamental images that have historically oriented its self-understanding: Plato’s allegory of the cave and the archaeological metaphor. Drawing on Hans Blumenberg’s concept of “absolute metaphors,” the paper argues that these images do not merely illustrate phenomenological concepts but also structure modes of orientation between evidence and facticity, telos and ananké. Through an analysis that engages with Edmund Husserl, Hans Blumenberg, and Anthony J. Steinbock, the article shows how phenomenology moves from a genetic account of meaning toward a generative phenomenology, in which excavation no longer aims at an ultimate origin but becomes a process of historical, affective, and intersubjective concretion. On this basis, the article introduces the notion of the “transcendental territory” as the site where phenomenology and anthropology converge in a situational understanding of existence. The conclusion argues for a liminal phenomenology that is not oriented toward escaping the world, but toward critically inhabiting its historical depth and responding to the generative task of meaning.