Imagining our neighbors as ourselves : how art shapes empathy / Mary W. McCampbell.

By:

McCampbell, Mary W [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2022]Description: 219 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

1506473903
9781506473901

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Contents:

Introduction : the imagination as a means to love -- Art as a model for the empathetic imagination -- Empathy for the wretched and glorious human condition -- stories as self-reflection -- Who is our neighbor? -- Structured for empathy -- Growing empathy for our enemies -- Conclusion.

Summary: "In this book, Mary W. McCampbell looks at how narrative art--whether literature, film, television, or popular music--expands our imaginations and, in so doing, emboldens our ability to love our neighbors as ourselves. The prophetic artists in these pages--Graham Greene, Toni Morrison, and Flannery O'Connor among them--show through the form and content of their narrative craft that in order to love, we must be able to effectively imagine the lives of others. But even through we have these rich opportunities to grow emotionally and spiritually, we have been culturally trained as consumers to treat our reading, watching, and listening as mere acts of consumption." -- Book jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Main Collection Books	John Brown University Library	Main	BF575 .E55 M33 2022	Checked out	03/14/2024	39524100449960

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index.

"In this book, Mary W. McCampbell looks at how narrative art--whether literature, film, television, or popular music--expands our imaginations and, in so doing, emboldens our ability to love our neighbors as ourselves. The prophetic artists in these pages--Graham Greene, Toni Morrison, and Flannery O'Connor among them--show through the form and content of their narrative craft that in order to love, we must be able to effectively imagine the lives of others. But even through we have these rich opportunities to grow emotionally and spiritually, we have been culturally trained as consumers to treat our reading, watching, and listening as mere acts of consumption." -- Book jacket.