About George Lakoff
George Lakoff, recently featured in The New York Times Magazine, is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founding senior fellow of the Rockridge Institute, a center for research devoted to promoting progressive ideas. He is the author of the influential bestseller Don’t Think of an Elephant! and Moral Politics, as well as seminal books in linguistics, including Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things and Metaphors We Live By (with Mark Johnson). He lives in Berkeley, California.
Bios
Books and DVDs
The essential guide for progressives, this book is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative dominance of the national public policy debate. New York Times Bestseller
A seminal work on the fundamental importance of metaphors in thought, and where they come from.
A Fresh look at how we think and talk about political and moral ideas.
A field guide to poetic metaphor.
An exploration of the embodied mind and its challenge to Western philosophy.
A study of how the mind brings mathematics into being.
Seminal text on Cognitive Semantics, examining what categories reveal about the mind.
A powerful DVD for concerned citizens, activists, volunteers - everyone - who wants to communicate effectively.
One of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement.
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