Thinking of others : on the talent for metaphor /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2008
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| Series: | Princeton monographs in philosophy.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 89 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400828951 1400828953 9786612157752 6612157755 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
