Proust was a neuroscientist

Author(s)

• Lehrer, Jonah

Bibliographic Information

Proust was a neuroscientist

Jonah Lehrer

Canongate, 2011, c2007

Note

First published in 2007 : New York : Houghton Millflin

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-230) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Is science the only path to knowledge? In this sparkling and provocative book Jonah Lehrer, author of The Decisive Moment, 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 malleable nature; how the French chef Escoffier intuited umami (the fifth taste); how Cezanne 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.

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Details

• NCID: BB08405073
• ISBN:
  • 9781847677853
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Edinburgh
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 242 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 700.105
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Neurosciences and the arts
  • LCSH : Neurosciences -- History
  • LCSH : Neurosciences