The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition 9780674238916

For 200 million years before humans developed a capacity to reason, the emotional centers of the brain were hard at work

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English Pages 368 [439] Year 2019

Table of contents :
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

The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition
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