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OverviewIn 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 engaging style, Cohen explores this idea by examining various occasions for identifying with others, including reading fiction, enjoying sports, making moral arguments, estimating one's future self, and imagining how one appears to others. Using many literary examples, Cohen argues that we can engage with fictional characters just as intensely as we do with real people, and he looks at some of the ways literature itself takes up the question of interpersonal identification and understanding.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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ted CohenPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Volume: 37 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.113kg ISBN: 9780691154466ISBN 10: 0691154465 Pages: 104 Publication Date: 08 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsTed Cohen's little philosophical essay on how metaphor gets us to think of others, was tremendous. -- James Wood, NewYorker.com The important, intriguing subject of this small book by Cohen--one's capacity to understand others--is full of perplexing puzzles. Through careful analysis of interesting examples, Cohen makes readers wonder about some of the major impasses in mutual understanding between people with different religious perspectives, with different racial and social experiences, and even with allegiances to different baseball teams. -- S.A. Mason, Choice This is really philosophy at its best: clearly written and free from jargon, sophisticated yet unpretentious, and highly engaging. -- Jeanette Bicknell, Philosophy in Review [W]hy not invest in Cohen's book? I assure you it will return handsome dividends, even in the present economy. -- Peter Kivy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Cohen has given us, in wonderfully readable and analytically acute form, an unforgettable study of a complexly interwoven set of linguistic, perceptual, and imaginative abilities that not only make us who we are, but make us who we are together. -- Garry L. Hagberg, Mind Ted Cohen's little philosophical essay on how metaphor gets us to think of others was tremendous. -- James Wood, NewYorker.com This is really philosophy at its best: clearly written and free from jargon, sophisticated yet unpretentious, and highly engaging. -- Jeanette Bicknell, Philosophy in Review Cohen has given us, in wonderfully readable and analytically acute form, an unforgettable study of a complexly interwoven set of linguistic, perceptual, and imaginative abilities that not only make us who we are, but make us who we are together. -- Garry L. Hagberg, Mind Ted Cohen's work on metaphor is well known in the profession, so it comes as no surprise to us that he has now written a splendid book on the subject. -- Peter Kivy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism The important, intriguing subject of this small book by Cohen--one's capacity to understand others--is full of perplexing puzzles. Through careful analysis of interesting examples, Cohen makes readers wonder about some of the major impasses in mutual understanding between people with different religious perspectives, with different racial and social experiences, and even with allegiances to different baseball teams. -- S.A. Mason, Choice [W]hy not invest in Cohen's book? I assure you it will return handsome dividends, even in the present economy. -- Peter Kivy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Author InformationTed Cohen is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and the author of Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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