...empathetic imagining for rule-governed moral reasoning, and I am not making that suggestion. In fact, I defend the literary imagination precisely because...other people whose lives are distant from our own. Yet, however distant the narrative of the presumed 'other': de tefabula narratur. It is because Hard...

...Imagination and Public Life, she defends the literary imagination, seeing it as "an essential ingredient to an ethical stance that asks us to concern ourselves...other people whose lives are distant from our own" (Nussbaum 1995: xvi). Merely appealing to an ethics of impartial respect for human dignity is insufficient,...

...literature means to Nussbaum herself. In her book Poetic Justice, Nussbaum defends the literary imagination 'because it seems to me an essential ingredient of...good of other people whose lives are distant from our own'.*1 Hence 'we can say of the mainstream realist novel what Aristotle said of tragic drama: that...

...bewusst gegen die Position von Fish und Rorty wie auch gegen die der Dekonstruktivisten, wenn sie sagt: "I defend the literary imagination precisely because...other people whose lives are distant from our own." (ibid.: XVI) Wenn Fish und Rorty betonen, dass der starke Leser sich nicht von dem literarischen Text...

...Nussbaum suggests is the promise of literature when she says that "the literary imagination . . . [is] an essential ingredient of an ethical stance that...good of other people whose lives are distant from our own."52 The Marrow of Tradition effectively places a human face on the racial prejudice the Court failed...

...imagination and public life, Martha Nussbaum defends "the literary imagination precisely because it seems ... an essential ingredient of an ethical stance that...other people whose lives are distant from our own" (1995, xvi). For Nussbaum, this literary imagination is as defensible as legal, economic, and other...