Brian J. Mcveigh

A Psychohistory of Metaphors (eBook, PDF)

Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space, and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries by exploring "meta-framing:" our ever-increasing capability to "step back" from the environment, search out its familiar features to explain the unfamiliar, and generate "as if" forms of knowledge and metaphors of location and vision. This book demonstrates how analogizing and abstracting have altered spatio-visual perceptions, expanding our introspective capabilities and allowing us to adapt to changing social circumstances.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881882525
• Artikelnr.: 74850382

Autorenporträt

Brian J. McVeigh holds a PhD from Princeton University and is now training to be a mental health counselor.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Acknowledgments and Notes to Reader Prologue
Explaining History's "Inward Turn"
Chapter 1
My Search for Heaven and Hell
Chapter 2
Purposes and Premises: Tracing the Trajectories of Human Experience
Chapter 3
The Magic of Metaphors: How Our Minds Make the World
Chapter 4
Unpacking the "Black Box" of Conscious Interiority Part One
Space: Hollowing Out the Person
Chapter 5
Envisioning the Invisible: Spatializing the Soul
Chapter 6
Invoking Introspectable Worlds
Chapter 7
The Collapse of Premodern Cosmology Part Two
Psyche: The Origins of Scientific Psychology
Chapter 8
The Foundations of the Modern Study of Mind
Chapter 9
The Great Cosmic Split: Dualism
Chapter 10
Reactions to the Cartesian Split
Chapter 11
Early Psychology: Making Visible the Contents of the Soul Part Three
Time: Modern Millenarianism and Politics as "Progress"
Chapter 12
Meta
Framing Time: The Invention of History
Chapter 13
Liberating the Psyche: