Promethean Press The patterning instinct: a cultural history of humanity's search for meaning, hardcover/jeremy r. lent

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This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world.

It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancient Egyptians, traditional Chinese sages, the founders of Christianity, trail-blazers of the Scientific Revolution, and those who constructed our modern consumer society.

Taking the reader on an archaeological exploration of the mind, t.