More than Cool Reason is a direct successor to Lakoff and Johnson's widely read Metaphors We Live... more More than Cool Reason is a direct successor to Lakoff and Johnson's widely read Metaphors We Live By (1980). The earlier book proposed a general view of the importance of metaphor in how people make sense of daily life, and it began the task of identifying the general metaphors of modem Western culture (e.g., Argument is War, Life is a Journey, Mind is a Machine) that can be found in common, everyday speech. It also proposed a rather complicated theory of the nature of metaphorical truth that diluted some genuine insights from cultural anthropology (e.g., that how we live shapes how we make sense of the world) with the rather less useful perspectives of academic philosophy (e.g, the "objectivism" vs. "subjectivism" debate). The book was mainly read for its central thesis: that the specific metaphors of ordinary language shape both general habits of reasoning and particular conceptual views.
More than Cool Reason is a direct successor to Lakoff and Johnson's widely read Metaphors We Live... more More than Cool Reason is a direct successor to Lakoff and Johnson's widely read Metaphors We Live By (1980). The earlier book proposed a general view of the importance of metaphor in how people make sense of daily life, and it began the task of identifying the general metaphors of modem Western culture (e.g., Argument is War, Life is a Journey, Mind is a Machine) that can be found in common, everyday speech. It also proposed a rather complicated theory of the nature of metaphorical truth that diluted some genuine insights from cultural anthropology (e.g., that how we live shapes how we make sense of the world) with the rather less useful perspectives of academic philosophy (e.g, the "objectivism" vs. "subjectivism" debate). The book was mainly read for its central thesis: that the specific metaphors of ordinary language shape both general habits of reasoning and particular conceptual views.
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