More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor

"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." — Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University



"In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." — Norman Holland, University of Florida

• Metaphor: A Practical Introduction
• Metaphors We Live By
• Philosophy In The Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
• Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
• I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World
• The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason
• Figurative Language (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
• Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition
• The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending And The Mind's Hidden Complexities
• The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language