Splendors and miseries of the brain : love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness

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Splendors and miseries of the brain : love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness

Semir Zeki

Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

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  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and indexes

Summary: This work examines the elegant and efficient machinery of the brain, showing that by studying music, art, literature, and love, we can reach important conclusions about how the brain functions. It discusses creativity and the search for perfection in the brain; examines the power of the unfinished and why it has such a powerful hold on the imagination; discusses Platonic concepts in light of the brain; shows that aesthetic theories are best understood in terms of the brain; discusses the inherited concept of unity in love using evidence derived from the world literature of love; addresses the role of the synthetic concept in the brain (the synthesis of many experiences) in relation to art, using examples taken from the work of Michelangelo, Cezanne, Balzac, Dante, and others

Hardback ed: 24 cm

収録内容

  • Abstraction
  • The brain and its concepts
  • Inherited brain concepts
  • The distributed knowledge-acquiring system of the brain
  • The acquired synthetic brain concepts
  • The synthetic brain concept and the platonic ideal
  • Creativity and the source of perfection in the brain
  • Ambiguity in the brain and in art
  • Processing and perceptual sites in the brain
  • From unambiguous to ambiguous knowledge
  • Higher levels of ambiguity
  • Michelangelo and the non-finito
  • Paul Cézanne and the unfinished
  • Unfinished art in literature
  • Conte by Arthur Rimbaud
  • The brain's concepts of love
  • The neural correlates of love
  • Brain concepts of unity and annihilation in love
  • Sacred and profane
  • The metamorphosis of the brain concept of love in Dante
  • Wagner and Tristan und Isolde
  • Thomas Mann and Death in Venice
  • A neurobiological analysis of Freud's civilization and its discontents

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内容説明

Splendors and Miseries of the Brain examines the elegant and efficient machinery of the brain, showing that by studying music, art, literature, and love, we can reach important conclusions about how the brain functions. discusses creativity and the search for perfection in the brain examines the power of the unfinished and why it has such a powerful hold on the imagination discusses Platonic concepts in light of the brain shows that aesthetic theories are best understood in terms of the brain discusses the inherited concept of unity-in-love using evidence derived from the world literature of love addresses the role of the synthetic concept in the brain (the synthesis of many experiences) in relation to art, using examples taken from the work of Michelangelo, Cezanne, Balzac, Dante, and others

目次

List of Figures vii Note to the Reader ix Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 PART I Abstraction and the Brain 7 1 Abstraction 9 2 The Brain and its Concepts 21 3 Inherited Brain Concepts 26 4 The Distributed Knowledge-Acquiring System of the Brain 35 5 The Acquired Synthetic Brain Concepts 42 6 The Synthetic Brain Concept and the Platonic Ideal 46 7 Creativity and the Source of Perfection in the Brain 50 PART II Brain Concepts and Ambiguity 59 8 Ambiguity in the Brain and in Art 61 9 Processing and Perceptual Sites in the Brain 65 10 From Unambiguous to Ambiguous Knowledge 73 11 Higher Levels of Ambiguity 87 PART III Unachievable Brain Concepts 99 Introduction 101 12 Michelangelo and the Non finito 102 13 Paul Cezanne and the Unfinished 111 14 Unfinished Art in Literature 120 PART IV Brain Concepts of Love 129 Conte by Arthur Rimbaud 131 15 The Brain's Concepts of Love 132 16 The Neural Correlates of Love 137 17 Brain Concepts of Unity and Annihilation in Love 150 18 Sacred and Profane 158 19 The Metamorphosis of the Brain Concept of Love in Dante 170 20 Wagner and Tristan und Isolde 182 21 Thomas Mann and Death in Venice 193 22 A neurobiological analysis of Freud's Civilization and its Discontents 203 Notes 213 Index 227

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