{"product_id":"thinking-of-others-ted-cohen-9780691154466","title":"Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThinking of Others\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An original meditation on the necessity of imagination to moral and aesthetic life, \u003ci\u003eThinking of Others\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to philosophy and literary theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ted Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691154465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691154466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.50d","brand":"Ted Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925618032895,"sku":"9780691154466","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_17d572c2-e4c5-4988-bbdf-f6fda40221e9.jpg?v=1681078338","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thinking-of-others-ted-cohen-9780691154466","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}