Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor

by Ted Cohen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691154465
• ISBN13: 9780691154466
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"