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"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

"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

For readers of big history and philosophy, a fast-paced new book on the origins and history of human ideas--from cannibalism to religion, feminism to stoicism--by a renowned historian. A vividly rendered work that relates the history of human ideas and examines the broad array... Read Full Overview