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Metaphors of Memory: A History of Ideas about the Mind | 
| Author: Douwe Draaisma
Creator: Paul Vincent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 830616
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 255
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0521650240
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.12
EAN: 9780521650243
Publication Date: January 8, 2001
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Product Description
What is memory? Without memory we lose our sense of identity, reasoning, even our ability to perform simple physical tasks. Yet it is elusive and difficult to define, and throughout the ages philosophers and psychologists have used metaphors as a way of understanding it. This fascinating book takes the reader on a guided tour of these metaphors of memory from ancient times to the present day, exploring the way metaphors often derived from the techniques and instruments developed to store information such as wax tablets, books, photography, computers and even the hologram.
Book Description
What is memory? Without memory we lose our sense of identity, reasoning, even our ability to perform simple physical tasks. Yet it is elusive and difficult to define, and throughout the ages philosophers and psychologists have used metaphors as a way of understanding it. This fascinating book takes the reader on a guided tour of these metaphors of memory from ancient times to the present day, exploring the way metaphors often derived from the techniques and instruments developed to store information such as wax tablets, books, photography, and even computers.
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Interesting Reading.. February 7, 2006
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for those interested in the study of memory and the history of the field.
Informative, accessible, and highly recommended March 19, 2001
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Douwe Draaisma is a lecturer in the history of psychology at the University of Groningen. In Metaphors Of Memory: A History Of Ideas About The Mind he explores what memory is, how it is ephemeral, unreliable, and yet essential to everything a person does. Without memory we lose ability to perform simple physical tasks. Memory is elusive to define and from antiquity attempts to discuss or describe it have relied on metaphor. Draaisma provides the reader with a kind of guided tour of these metaphors throughout the ages and presents a compelling, scholarly history of ideas about the mind by exploring the ways these metaphors have been employed. Metaphors Of Memory: is fascinating, informative, accessible, and highly recommended to students of psychology and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the nature of memory and its relationship to the human mind.
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