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Jonah Lehrer - Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Av Jonah Lehrer

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Beskrivning
Is science the only path to knowledge?In this sparkling and provocative book, Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers, painters and composers, Lehrer shows us how artists have discovered truths about the human mind - real, tangible truths - that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot understood the brain's malleability; how the French chef Escoffier intuited umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Virginia Woolf pierced the mysteries of consciousness. It's a riveting tale of art trumping science again and again.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-04-19
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 185 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Canongate Books
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9780857862310
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Jonah Lehrer is editor at large for Seed magazine and the author of The Decisive Moment: How the Brain Makes Up Its Mind. A graduate of Columbia University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Lehrer has worked in the lab of Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel. He has written for the New Yorker, Boston Globe, Washington Post, NPR and New Scientist, and writes a highly regarded blog, The Frontal Cortex.

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If all science books were as successful in bridging the divide between art and science as this one is, there would no longer be a divide to bridge.

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