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I Am You - The Hermeneutics of Empathy in Western Literature, Theology and Art (Hardcover)
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I Am You - The Hermeneutics of Empathy in Western Literature, Theology and Art (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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.
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