The short philosophy/psychology book Return Trip by David Cycleback was named a finalist for the 2014 Eric Hoffer Award. The book award is given out by the publisher and the estate of the late Eric Hoffer, the famed American social philosopher and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner.
The following is Amazon’s description of the book: ” ‘Looking at visual illusions and how they work show us that reality and human perception of reality are different things.’ Return Trip is a shortened, chopped-up and transformed version of prominent art historian Cycleback’s earlier published works on aesthetics, psychology, epistemology and philosophy of art. It examines aesthetic perception and cognitive biases in relationship to information processing and the search for knowledge. The aleatory structure and highly personal narrative is at turns academic, comic, poetic and psychological. Cycleback was a 2013 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist for his book Conceits, much of that work incorporated into Return Trip.”
Return Trip can be purchased as paperback at amazon or downloaded for free in pdf form.
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