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Reimagining Sympathy, Recognizing Difference: Insights from Adam Smith

Reimagining Sympathy, Recognizing Difference: Insights from Adam Smith

Churcher, Millicent

Hardcover

Series: Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1786609444
ISBN13: 9781786609441
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 15 2019
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 Churcherattends 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 institutionsto remedy abject failures to recognize and respond ethically to difference.

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