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A Thoughtful Book on Thinking,
This review is from: The Roots Of Thinking (Paperback)
The Roots of Thinking is the most thoughtful book on thinking I have encountered. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, a dancer, philosopher, and evolutionary biologist, is uniquely qualified to analyze the complex evolutionary progression from body language to verbal language during the four million year history of our hominid ancestors. Her own incisive thinking reveals the soft underpinnings of many traditional ideas about the origins of cognition, including those of monuments like Piaget and Levi-Strauss. The book covers the epistemologically liberating effect of the upright posture, including not only the use of the hands for tool making but the social and psychological advantages of face to face love making as well. In a chapter that is sheer poetry, she describes the conceptual preparation required for the recognition of death in others and the inevitable fate it represents for ourselves. Every pschotherapist interested in the subtle interactions of body and min! d will enjoy and benefit from this book.
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The Roots Of Thinking by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (Paperback - September 12, 1990)
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