Psychohistory of Metaphors

Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvBrian J. McVeigh,Brian J. Mcveigh

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How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space, and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries by exploring “meta-framing:” our ever-increasing capability to “step back” from the environment, search out its familiar features to explain the unfamiliar, and generate “as if” forms of knowledge and metaphors of location and vision. This book demonstrates how analogizing and abstracting have altered spatio-visual perceptions, expanding our introspective capabilities and allowing us to adapt to changing social circumstances.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-04-04
Mått158 x 239 x 24 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor244
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498520287

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ForewordAcknowledgments and Notes to ReaderPrologue - Explaining History's “Inward Turn”– Chapter 1 - My Search for Heaven and Hell– Chapter 2 - Purposes and Premises: Tracing the Trajectories of Human Experience– Chapter 3 - The Magic of Metaphors: How Our Minds Make the World– Chapter 4 - Unpacking the “Black Box” of Conscious InteriorityPart One - Space: Hollowing Out the Person– Chapter 5 - Envisioning the Invisible: Spatializing the Soul– Chapter 6 - Invoking Introspectable Worlds– Chapter 7 - The Collapse of Premodern CosmologyPart Two - Psyche: The Origins of Scientific Psychology– Chapter 8 - The Foundations of the Modern Study of Mind– Chapter 9 - The Great Cosmic Split: Dualism– Chapter 10 - Reactions to the Cartesian Split– Chapter 11 - Early Psychology: Making Visible the Contents of the SoulPart Three - Time: Modern Millenarianism and Politics as “Progress”– Chapter 12 - Meta-Framing Time: The Invention of History– Chapter 13 - Liberating the Psyche:

Brian McVeigh extends Jaynes’s ideas on metaphor and thought, expands upon the different features of consciousness, explains the interrelatedness of our conceptions of time, space, and the self, and explores some of the implications of our newly learned inner life—the consequences of our consciousness. His ideas constitute a significant step forward to both understanding the metaphorical basis of thought and the human condition.