Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape Our LivesIn this provocative, revelatory tour de force, Jesse Prinz reveals how the cultures we live in - not biology - determine how we think and feel. He examines all aspects of our behaviour, looking at everything from our intellects and emotions, to love and sex, morality and even madness. This book seeks to go beyond traditional debates of nature and nurture. He is not interested in finding universal laws but, rather, in understanding, explaining and celebrating our differences. |
Contents
Where Do Traits Come From? 2 Putting the Genome Back in the Bottle | |
Get Smart | |
Where Does Knowledge Come From? 4 What Babies Know | |
Sensible Ideas | |
Where Does Language Come From? 6 The Gift of the | |
Words and Worlds | |
Where Does Thinking Come From? 8 The Tao of Thought | |
Gender and Geometry | |
Where Do Feelings Come From? 10 Fear and Loathing in Micronesia | |
Gladness and Madness | |
Where Do Values Come From? | |
Other editions - View all
Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape Our Lives Jesse J. Prinz No preview available - 2012 |
Beyond Human Nature: How Culture And Experience Shape Our Lives Jesse J Prinz No preview available - 2013 |
Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind Jesse J. Prinz No preview available - 2014 |