Thinking of others : on the talent for metaphor / Ted Cohen.

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Cohen, Ted

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400828951
1400828953
9786612157752
6612157755

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thinking of others.DDC classification:

808 22 22

LOC classification:

PN228.M4 C58 2008eb

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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.

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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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.