Not for Profit by Nussbaum Martha C

Author:Nussbaum, Martha C.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

VI

Cultivating Imagination: Literature and the Arts

We may become powerful by knowledge, but we attain fullness by sympathy. . . . But we find that this education of sympathy is not only systematically ignored in schools, but it is severely repressed.

—Rabindranath Tagore, “My School,” 1916

It will be observed that I am looking at the highly sophisticated adult’s enjoyment of living or of beauty or of abstract human contrivance, and at the same time at the creative gesture of a baby who reaches out for the mother’s mouth and feels her teeth, and at the same time looks into her eyes, seeing her creatively. For me, playing leads on naturally to cultural experience and indeed forms its foundation.

—Donald Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971

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