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Reimagining Sympathy, Recognizing Difference - Insights from Adam Smith (Hardcover)
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Reimagining Sympathy, Recognizing Difference - Insights from Adam Smith (Hardcover)
Series: Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia
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Contemporary societies are marked by deep inequalities grounded in
collective failures to recognize the histories, needs, and
experiences of marginalized social groups. What are the strategies
that can help individuals become more responsive to social
realities and perspectives that differ significantly from their
own? In Reimagining Sympathy, Recognizing Difference: Insights from
Adam Smith, Millicent Churcher attends to recent debates over the
imagination as a resource for social and political reform, and
highlights the central relevance of Adam Smith's voice to these
debates. Smith, best known for his work on economics, may seem an
unlikely figure to draw upon in this context. However, his nuanced
account of 'sympathy'-conceived as an imaginative and reflective
capacity that develops within and through social experience-greatly
enriches the role of imagination in fostering mutual understanding
and solidarity among a diverse citizenry. Churcher critically
explores and extends Smith's view that if sympathy is to bind
people together across their differences rather than divide them,
it requires work at the level of individual practice, as well as
the support of wider social structures. By drawing Smith into
conversation with contemporary debates in social and political
theory, this monograph addresses the pressing question of what is
required from individuals and institutions to remedy abject
failures to recognize and respond ethically to difference.
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