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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. 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Thinking of Others
• Author: Cohen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104
• EAN: 9780691154466
• ISBN: 0691154465
• ID: 04460101
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 144 g
• Dimensions: 139 × 216 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. April 2012

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