Description: Further DetailsTitle: Moral ImaginationCondition: NewEAN: 9780691173160ISBN: 9780691173160Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/04/2016Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 425gAuthor: David BromwichLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: EssaysISBN-10: 0691173168Description: Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may illuminate the motives of human action and the reality of justice. These wide-ranging essays address thinkers and topics from Gandhi and Martin Luther King on nonviolent resistance, to the dangers of identity politics, to the psychology of the heroes of classic American literature. Bromwich demonstrates that moral imagination allows us to judge the right and wrong of actions apart from any benefit to ourselves, and he argues that this ability is an innate individual strength, rather than a socially conditioned habit. Political topics addressed here include Edmund Burke and Richard Price's efforts to define patriotism in the first year of the French Revolution, Abraham Lincoln's principled work of persuasion against slavery in the 1850s, the erosion of privacy in America under the influence of social media, and the use of euphemism to shade and anesthetize reactions to the global war on terror.Throughout, Bromwich considers the relationship between language and power, and the insights language may offer into the corruptions of power. Moral Imagination captures the singular voice of one of the most forceful thinkers working in America today.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Moral Imagination
Title: Moral Imagination
EAN: 9780691173160
ISBN: 9780691173160
Release Date: 10/04/2016
Release Year: 2016
Subtitle: Essays
ISBN-10: 0691173168
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Moral Imagination : Essays
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Political, Essays
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 15 oz
Author: David Bromwich
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
