{"product_id":"the-philosophical-imagination-selected-essays-9780190633776","title":"The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Philosophical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA theme connecting several of the essays is the different ways our capacity for imagination is drawn on in our responsiveness to art, to literature, to the lives of other persons, and in the practice of philosophy itself. Topics explored here include our emotional responses to mimetic works of art, \u003cbr\u003ethe nature of metaphor as a vehicle of thought and in the work of rhetoric, and the understanding of the concept of beauty, as that is developed in contrasting ways in the work of Immanuel Kant and Marcel Proust. Several of the essays respond to the work of recent and contemporary philosophers such\u003cbr\u003eas Bernard Williams, Stanley Cavell, Harry Frankfurt, and Iris Murdoch, in the context of such themes as the philosophical problem of 'other minds', love and practical reason, the legacy of Sartrean existentialism, and the role of history in the disciplinary self-understanding of philosophy. The\u003cbr\u003efinal group of essays focuses on questions about self-knowledge and the importance of the first-person perspective, developing ideas from Moran's influential book \u003cem\u003eAuthority and Estrangement \u003c\/em\u003e(Princeton 2001). Topics discussed here include the nature of a person's 'practical knowledge' of her own\u003cbr\u003eaction, the concept of the mental and the differences between self-understanding and the understanding of others, and the ambiguous role of narrative as a form of self-understanding. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout there is an attempt to draw out the connections between topics that are often discussed in isolation from each other, and to pursue them in the context of the recognizable human situations and questions which ground them. The essays are written in a vivid, humane, and accessible style\u003cbr\u003ewhich should attract a broad readership, both inside and outside the academic discipline of philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Moran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190633776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Moran \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Brian D. Young\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eProfessor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAuthority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge \u003c\/em\u003e(Princeton, 2001), and \u003cem\u003eThe Story of My Life: Narrative and Self-Understanding \u003c\/em\u003e(Aquinas Lectures, Marquette University Press, 2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40302928134259,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":92.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fdc29812-2ff7-448f-875c-c0d1b8ce3de0.jpg?v=1658842025","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-philosophical-imagination-selected-essays-9780190633776","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}