Origin of Ideas: Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark

by Mark Turner

Book Overview

What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly remarkable ability for granted?
In The Origin of Ideas, Mark Turner offers a provocative new theory to answer these and many other questions. While other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019998882X
• ISBN13: 9780199988822
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.2" x 6.5"