How History Made the Mind: The Cultural Origins of Objective Thinking (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812695366)

This book argues that "reason," or "objective thinking," is not a natural product of an enlarged brain or of innate biological tendencies, but a way of learning that contradicts the natural characteristics of being an animal, a mammal, and a primate. Author David Martel Johnson shows how the concept of objective thinking was incubated in Homeric Greece and eventually canonized as truth. Challenging and thoughtful, this book eloquently questions conventional wisdom in the contemporary study of the mind and includes an extended examination of the work of Julian Jaynes.

Author: David Martel Johnson
ISBN-10: 0812695364
ISBN-13: 9780812695366
Publisher: Open Court
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2003
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.00w x 0.59d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2004 pg. 115