Metaphors for the Mind: The Creative Mind and Its Origins

by Colin Murray Turbayne

Turbayne analyzes the significance of metaphor in human thought by exploring historical traditions of philosophy. Probing into the early philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, Turbayne traces the influence that Platonic metaphors have held for later important philosophers such as Berkeley and Kant. By showing how modern theories of human thought and language (including the substance and attribute theory) arose from the procreation model as presented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872496996
• ISBN13: 9780872496996
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"