Books like The language of love by Zoltán Kövecses

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explains how two distinct mental systems shape our judgments and decisions, offering insights into the biases that influence everyday choices.

Metaphor is portrayed as a core cognitive tool that shapes our thoughts and actions without our awareness, using everyday experiences to understand diverse domains.

In The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker explores how language shapes our cognition and society, revealing the hidden links between words, emotions, and culture.

Le désir de connaître mais aussi la troublante expérience de l'embarras et du tâtonnement confèrent à la réflexion philosophique sa dimension érotique. Pour les mêmes raisons, l'amour est philosophie : l'amoureux s'arrache à son propre point de vue pour porter sur lui-même et le monde le regard d'autrui, subit l'épreuve du doute après l'enthousiasme et nourrit sa réflexion d'incertitudes. Il ne sait plus ce qu'il sait, cherche ses mots, ne sait comment définir l'être aimé et craint d'être sot. Cette hésitation essentielle l'affranchit de la présomption et de l'idiotie. L'idiot, en effet, ne connaît pas l'amour et ses dérèglements : il est partout chez lui, jamais troublé ni dérangé par personne.

What do conservatives know that liberals don't? According to George Lakoff, they know that American politics is about morality and the family. Moral Politics takes a fresh look at how we think and talk about politics and shows that political and moral ideas develop in systematic ways from our models of ideal families. Lakoff reveals how family-based moral values determine views on such diverse issues as crime, gun control, taxation, social programs, and the environment. He shows why it is consistent for conservatives to oppose subsidies for the poor but endorse them for business, or for liberals to oppose the death penalty but support abortion. He also explains why liberal and conservative stances contain the constellations of policies they do. Drawing on studies showing that we think in terms of metaphorical concepts, Lakoff analyzes the language of political discourse and finds it rife with metaphors. He shows how both liberals and conservatives link morality to politics through the concept of family. But they diverge in their opposing ideas of what an ideal family is. Conservative metaphors are united by the concept of a patriarchal family in which the parent's role is to develop self-discipline in the child by enforcing strict rules. By contrast, liberals view caring interaction in the family as the most effective means of creating competent and responsible children.

A study of how the brain’s right and left hemispheres shape cultures, history, and social change.