Philosophy in the Flesh The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought

"[Lakoff and Johnson's] ambition is massive, their argument important, their success intermittent....[T]he authors eventually dissect ideas behind such figures as Kant, Descartes, and W.V.O. Quine, arguing that under the highly rational surface of those men's philosophical texts are entwined strands of that primal genetic metaphoric material....But something odd happens in the authors' determined quest for primal metaphor. Ordinary speech and thought become more resonant, but philosophical speech and thought are diminished."Lakoff, George is the author of 'Philosophy in the Flesh The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought', published 1999 under ISBN 9780465056743 and ISBN 0465056741.