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" I defend the literary imagination precisely because it seems to me an essential ingredient of an ethical stance that asks us to concern ourselves with the good of other people whose lives are distant from our own. "
Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in ... - Page 181
by Anne E. Monius - 2001 - 272 pages
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Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Christopher Hitchens - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 396 pages
...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...
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Lyotard: Just Education

Pradeep Ajit Dhillon, Paul Standish - Education - 2000 - 289 pages
...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,...
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The Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary Theory

Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 258 pages
...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...
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Literaturdidaktik im Dialog

Lothar Bredella, Werner Delanoy, Carola Surkamp - Literature - 2004 - 314 pages
...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...
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Literature and Law

Michael Meyer - Law and literature - 2004 - 256 pages
...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...
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Terrorism, Media, Liberation

John David Slocum - Performing Arts - 2005 - 372 pages
...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...
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