I Am You

The Hermeneutics of Empathy in Western Literature, Theology and Art

Karl F. Morrison (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

394 Seiten

2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-60873-0 (ISBN)

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Important trends in contemporary intellectual life celebrate difference, divisiveness, and distinction. Speculative writing increasingly highlights "hermeneutic gaps" between human beings, their histories, and their hopes. In this book Karl Morrison identifies an alternative to this disruption. He explores for the first time the entire legacy of thought revolving around the challenging claim "I am you"--perhaps the most concise possible statement of bonding through empathy. Professor Morrison shows that the hope for thoroughgoing understanding and inclusion in another's world view is central to the West's moral/intellectual tradition. He maintains that the West may yet escape the fatal flaw of casting that hope in paradigms of sexual and aesthetic dominance--examples of empathetic participation inspired by hunger for power, as well as by love. The author uses diverse sources: in theology ranging from Augustine to Schleiermacher, in art from the religious art of the Christian Empire to post-Abstractionism, and in literature from Donne to Joyce, Pirandello, and Mann.
In this work he builds on the thought of two earlier books: Tradition and Authority in the Western Church: 300-1140 (Princeton, 1969) and The Mimetic Tradition of Reform in the West (Princeton, 1982). "I Am You" goes beyond their themes to the inward act that, according to tradition, consummated the change achieved by mimesis: namely, empathetic participation. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. ix*PREFACE, pg. xi*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xvii*INTRODUCTION, pg. xix*PART I. THE CONTENT OF THE SAYING, pg. 1*PART II. PATTERNS OF UNDERSTANDING, pg. 41*PART III. UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING: THE SILENCE OF WORDS, pg. 167*PART IV. UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING: THE INVISIBILITY OF ART, pg. 267*CONCLUSION, pg. 346*EPILOGUE ON DISCARDED ALTARPIECES, pg. 350*THE CALL FROM WITH IN THE WORDS, pg. 353*INDEX, pg. 359

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.7.2014
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-691-60873-3 / 0691608733
ISBN-13	978-0-691-60873-0 / 9780691608730
Zustand	Neuware