Hardcover, 256 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2007 by Houghton Mifflin.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by Jonah Lehrer
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"Quick book recommendation for you. I finished reading this about a week ago and it's still lingering in my thoughts. I always intend to blog the dogeared pages, but never get around to it. In a nutshell: Jonah Lehrer explores how artists from various disciplines and eras have pre-empted neuroscience by intuiting or reflecting particular parts of brain function. Lovely, accessible, thoughtful, a science book that embraces art and acknowledges the role it has to play in reflecting human experience. Perhaps most importantly, it also fully acknowledges the uncertainty at the heart of a lot of science, and how that brings it closer to art in a way we don't often recognise. Good stuff." - cowbite
Subjects
- General
- Subjects & Themes - General
- Science / General
- Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology
- Neuroscience
- Science
- Art & Art Instruction
- History
- Neurosciences
- Neurosciences and the arts
- Science/Mathematics