Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It

Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy and history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps, from the first Homo sapiens to the present day. Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science, he explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalizing glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. A magisterial paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker, Out of Our Minds is a unique history of our species and the ideas that have defined Bronze Age thinking all the way up to today.

Publisher: One World
Date Published: 2019
Book Condition: Near fine soft cover with minimal wear to cover edges and minor spotting and marks to top and bottom book edges. A clean and unmarked copy internally.