Through the two Blumenberg's concepts of meaninfulness and reception, analized in his Work on Myth, this article aims to explore the problem of distance as an ontological guarantee inherent in several narratives of the myth of Prometheus.

El propósito de este artículo es hacer un recorrido que permita dibujar un mapa tentativo a propósito del estatus de la retórica en la Grecia antigua, siguiendo una línea que va desde Gorgias hasta Aristóteles. El texto presta particular interés a las relaciones que se establecen entre la retórica, la culinaria y la dialéctica y se detiene en el término “antistrophos” que parece jugar un papel clave dentro de la ubicación de la retórica como arte o como simple práctica aduladora. (...) Para elaborar este recorrido se hace una aproximación a textos fundamentales dentro de la historia de la retórica como Encomio de Helena de Gorgias, Gorgias y Fedro de Platón y Retórica de Aristóteles. (shrink)

The purpose of this article is making a critical revision of the field of communication –understood as a field of research and reflection– and the way its existence has been tried to be legitimated since the postwar period. Our stance holds that, even though it is possible to find relatively linear and continuous narratives to understand communication, what is regarded here is reaching comprehension of the fragmentation and language games brought together in it. Besides, the core problem does not rely (...) on the consolidation of a linear and scientific epistemological narrative, but on the manner discourse is articulated, giving place to such narratives turning around their political charges and not the supposed scientific value attributed to them. (shrink)