In and Out of Each Others' Bodies: Theory of Mind, Evolution, Truth, and the Nature of the Social

by Maurice Bloch

Book Overview

What is human sociality? How are universals such as truth and doubt variously demonstrated and negotiated in different cultures? This book offers an accessible introduction to these and other fundamental human questions. Bloch shows that the social consists of two very different things. One is a matter of continual adjustments between individuals who read each others' minds and thus, as in sex and birth, "go in and out of each other's minds and bodies."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612051014
• ISBN13: 9781612051017
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"