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072 7 _aPHI005000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCohen, Ted
_eautore
245 1 0 _aThinking of Others :
_bOn the Talent for Metaphor /
_cTed Cohen.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2008
300 _a1 online resource
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490 0 _aPrinceton Monographs in Philosophy ;
_v24
505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tCHAPTER ONE. The Talent for Metaphor --
_tCHAPTER TWO. Being a Good Sport --
_tCHAPTER THREE. From the Bible: Nathan and David --
_tCHAPTER FOUR. Real Feelings, Unreal People --
_tCHAPTER FIVE. More from the Bible: Abraham and God --
_tCHAPTER SIX. More Lessons from Sports --
_tCHAPTER SEVEN. Oneself Seen by Others --
_tCHAPTER EIGHT. Oneself as Oneself --
_tCHAPTER NINE. Lessons from Art --
_tCHAPTER TEN. The Possibility of Conversation, Moral and Otherwise --
_tCHAPTER ELEVEN. Conclusion: In Praise of Metaphor --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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