The Book of the Heart

by Eric Jager

Book Overview

In today's increasingly electronic world, we say our personality traits are "hard-wired" and we "replay" our memories. But we use a different metaphor when we speak of someone "reading" another's mind or a desire to "turn over a new leaf"--these phrases refer to the "book of the self," an idea that dates from the beginnings of Western culture.

Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226391175
• ISBN13: 9780226391175
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"