I am you : the hermeneutics of empathy in western literature, theology, and art / Karl F. Morrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Karl F. (Karl Frederick), 1936- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Empathy in literature.

Empathy in art.

Empathy--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.

Empathy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. THE CONTENT OF THE SAYING

PART II. PATTERNS OF UNDERSTANDING

PART III. UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING: THE SILENCE OF WORDS

PART IV. UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING: THE INVISIBILITY OF ART

CONCLUSION

EPILOGUE ON DISCARDED ALTARPIECES

THE CALL FROM WITH IN THE WORDS

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691637136

069163713X

9781400859436

1400859433

9780691608730

0691608733

OCLC:

884012845