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

"A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties-emotion, perception and reason-to shape the history of human mental life."-The Wall Street Journal

To imagine-to see what is not there-is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the picture in our minds.

Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, ...