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Moral Imagination - Essays (Paperback)
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Moral Imagination - Essays (Paperback)
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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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