Thinking of Others : On the Talent for Metaphor /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Ted
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Metaphor.
Empathy.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
empathy.
metaphor.
Empathie.
Metaphore.
Empathy
Metaphor
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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