Thinking of Others On the Talent for Metaphor

Name: Thinking of Others On the Talent for Metaphor
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ISBN: 9780691154466

ISBN-10: 0691154465

ISBN-13: 9780691154466

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ted Cohen

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InThinking 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,…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 5.47" wide x 12.95" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Ted Cohen (1939-2014) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago from 1967 until his death. He was the auhor ofï¿½Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters and Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor and co-editor of Essays in Kant's Aesthetics and Pursuits of Reason: Essays in Honor of Stanley Cavell.