Reason of Metaphor : A Study in Politics

This challenging book is a vibrant protest against the analytic frame of politics in which concepts are well defined and fundamental truths 'known'.

In The Reason of Metaphor, Miller emphasizes the lack of universal standards and displays a dissatisfaction with the dominant western faith in reason.

Miller argues against any cultural disposition to think only in terms of 'either-or' and seeks to restore the dignity of metaphor both as the heart of all political discourse and as the primary tool of political analysis and demystification.