The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition

by Stephen T. Asma and Rami Gabriel

Book Overview

Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe less to our faculty for reason than to our capacity to feel.

Many accounts of the human mind concentrate on the brain's computational power. Yet, in evolutionary terms, rational cognition emerged only the day before yesterday. For nearly 200 million years before humans developed a capacity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674980557
• ISBN13: 9780674980556
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"