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...
| Основен автор: | Cohen, Ted. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
℗♭2008.
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| Серия: |
Princeton monographs in philosophy.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=286664 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Thinking of others. |
| Резюме: |
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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 89 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781400828951 1400828953 |