Since before the dawn of history, people have been telling stories to each other and to themselves. Thus stories are at the root of human experience. This volum

This book presents a unique and intuitively compelling way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that t

This book is about how we think and how what we think shapes our attempts to manage the ongoing course of our lives. Our primary mode of thought is in the form

The renowned naturalist, Loren Eisely, observed that we humans have given up the “certainty of the animal that what it senses is exactly there in the shape th

Examining the constitutive role of language and narration in key areas of human experience, Narrative and the Self articulates a view of the self as the implied