[PDF.33tp] Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy)

Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy)

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Thank You Professor Cohen|By Michael H.Friedman|Professor Cohen's sustained, eloquent, amusing and rigorous excavation of the soil, roots, stems and branches of metaphor is richly rewarding. Challenging, indeed. Learned, of course. I recommend this work for anyone who craves the "pondering" of (and over) language, perception and how we understand ourselves and others. One can| |"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 unpretentiou

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 languag...

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