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The Emotional Mind : The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition / Stephen T. Asma.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674238916
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.8/232 23
LOC classification:
  • QP401
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition -- 1. Why a New Paradigm? -- 2. Biological Aboutness: REASSESSING TELEOLOGY -- 3. Social Intelligence from the Ground Up -- 4. Emotional Flexibility and the Evolution of Bioculture -- 5. The Ontogeny of Social Intelligence -- 6. Representation and Imagination -- 7. Language and Concepts -- 8. Affect in Cultural Evolution: THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF CIVILIZATION -- 9. Religion, Mythology, and Art -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: For 200 million years before humans developed a capacity to reason, the emotional centers of the brain were hard at work. Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel help us understand the evolution of the mind by exploring this more primal capability that we share with other animals: the power to feel, which is the root of so much that makes us uniquely human.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674238916

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition -- 1. Why a New Paradigm? -- 2. Biological Aboutness: REASSESSING TELEOLOGY -- 3. Social Intelligence from the Ground Up -- 4. Emotional Flexibility and the Evolution of Bioculture -- 5. The Ontogeny of Social Intelligence -- 6. Representation and Imagination -- 7. Language and Concepts -- 8. Affect in Cultural Evolution: THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF CIVILIZATION -- 9. Religion, Mythology, and Art -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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For 200 million years before humans developed a capacity to reason, the emotional centers of the brain were hard at work. Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel help us understand the evolution of the mind by exploring this more primal capability that we share with other animals: the power to feel, which is the root of so much that makes us uniquely human.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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