Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking (Audio)
ISBN:
9781469054872 (1469054876)
Publish date: April 30th 2013
Publisher: Your Coach Digital
Edition language: English
I didn't listen to the whole book. I listened to about 9 hours of it. The book is clearly for lovers of words of which I'm not. I do like the authors overriding theme that we think by categorization through analogy. I just didn't want to sit through a countless stream of analogies and word play exam...
Quite an intriguing look at the conscious and subconscious use of analogy in everyday thought, communication, empathy, understanding others and their experiences, and making sense of our own experiences in order to avoid or more fully appreciate them in future.As well-researched and interesting as t...