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Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness
Semir Zeki
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Paperback. In Splendors and Miseries of the Brain, leading neurobiologist Semir Zeki, explores the huge price humans pay, in terms of happiness, for the enormously elegant and efficient machinery of the brain. The book has two main interrelated themes. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JM; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Chicester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405185578
SKU
V9781405185578
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99-1
About Semir Zeki
Semir Zeki is a visual neurobiologist in the Department of Cognitive Neurology at University College London. Zeki has pioneered the study of the primate visual brain and furthered research on how affective states are generated by visual inputs. He has published extensively in his field, including the books Inner Vision: an exploration of art and the brain ... Read more
Reviews for Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness
'Courageous and carefully considered ... Zeki's book is wide in its sympathies and sources, and it deserves attention as part of a fascinating enquiry set to continue for many years to come. ( Brain , November 2009) Set ... quite apart from the snappiness of most contemporary science-writing ... the book thinks hard, feels warmly and puts out ... Read more