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.
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