The Stuff of Thought Abridged : Language as a Window Into Human Nature
Book on CD - 2007 Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / Social Science / Pinker, Steven 1 On Shelf No requests on this item
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Compact disc.
Read by Dean Olsher.
Steven Pinker explains how language and human thoughts are related to each other.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Wonderful melting pot!
submitted by interstice on August 10, 2016, 7:38pm
First book by Pinker for me. He seems a polymath, comfortably and competently interweaving ideas from linguistics, psychology, history, anthropology, math, several branches of philosophy, and a variety of sciences. Heady stuff, densely packed, but the connections are well worth exploring.
My only complaint is that I walked into this not knowing how rich it would be, and I've been trying to listen and understand it as a recorded book, while I'm driving. Not a good idea, at least for me. I miss 60% of what he's getting at (though even 40% is still enlightening), and probably concentrating too hard to be as attentive a driver as I should be. I think I need to ditch this version and just read the book.
(OTOH: whoever the narrator is, does an excellent job!)
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Audio, p2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 8 sound discs (ca. 9 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in..
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780143142584 (container)
0143142585 (container)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Olsher, Dean.
SUBJECTS
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Thought and thinking.
Audiobooks.