James Geary on metaphors

[Dave Monroe]

For Program On: Tuesday, February 22, 2011  at  10:00 AM

After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the sometimes
surprising importance of metaphor in our daily lives, including
politics, economics, and physics
.
Guest: James Geary, journalist and author. His books include, “The
World in a Phrase: A History of Aphorisms,” “We Are What We Think,”
and most recently, “I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How
It Shapes the Way We See the World.”

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