Thinking of Others : : On the Talent for Metaphor / / Ted Cohen.
In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see onese...
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Cohen, Ted, author. Thinking of Others : On the Talent for Metaphor / Ted Cohen. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2008 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Monographs in Philosophy ; 24 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. The Talent for Metaphor -- CHAPTER TWO. Being a Good Sport -- CHAPTER THREE. From the Bible: Nathan and David -- CHAPTER FOUR. Real Feelings, Unreal People -- CHAPTER FIVE. More from the Bible: Abraham and God -- CHAPTER SIX. More Lessons from Sports -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Oneself Seen by Others -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Oneself as Oneself -- CHAPTER NINE. Lessons from Art -- CHAPTER TEN. The Possibility of Conversation, Moral and Otherwise -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Conclusion: In Praise of Metaphor -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see oneself as someone else, whether the someone else is a real person or a fictional character, is to exercise the ability to deal with metaphor and other figurative language. The underlying faculty, Cohen argues, is the same--simply the ability to think of one thing as another when it plainly is not. In an engaging style, Cohen explores this idea by examining various occasions for identifying with others, including reading fiction, enjoying sports, making moral arguments, estimating one's future self, and imagining how one appears to others. Using many literary examples, Cohen argues that we can engage with fictional characters just as intensely as we do with real people, and he looks at some of the ways literature itself takes up the question of interpersonal identification and understanding. An original meditation on the necessity of imagination to moral and aesthetic life, Thinking of Others is an important contribution to philosophy and literary theory. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691154466 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400828951 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400828951.jpg |
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