I Is an Other

The New York Times bestselling author examines how metaphors influence every aspect of our lives, from art to medicine, psychology to the stock market. Metaphor is much more than a mere literary device. Often hiding in plain sight, it is a critical aspect of how humans think and communicate. Metaphor is at work in all fields of human endeavor, including economics, business, science, and psychology. In  I Is an Other , James Geary takes readers from Aristotle's investigation of metaphor righ