Looking for Spinoza - Antonio Damasio
Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
KORTE INHOUD
Joy, sorrow, jealousy, and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives.
Thought to be too private for science to explain and not essential for understanding cognition, they have largely been ignored. But not by Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. Here, in a humane work of science, Damasio draws on his innovative research and on his experience with neurological patients to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie them support the human spirit's greatest creations.
Antonio Damasio, widely recognized as one of the world's leading neuroscientists, has long been investigating the neurobiological foundations of human life. In 'Descartes' Error' he explored the importance of emotion in rational behaviour, and in 'The Feeling of What Happens' he used feelings to explain the basis of the self. Damasio's new book focuses on what feelings are and reveals the biology of our survival mechanisms. It rediscovers a thinker whose work prefigures modern neuroscience, not only in his emphasis on em...
Thought to be too private for science to explain and not essential for understanding cognition, they have largely been ignored. But not by Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. Here, in a humane work of science, Damasio draws on his innovative research and on his experience with neurological patients to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie them support the human spirit's greatest creations.
Antonio Damasio, widely recognized as one of the world's leading neuroscientists, has long been investigating the neurobiological foundations of human life. In 'Descartes' Error' he explored the importance of emotion in rational behaviour, and in 'The Feeling of What Happens' he used feelings to explain the basis of the self. Damasio's new book focuses on what feelings are and reveals the biology of our survival mechanisms. It rediscovers a thinker whose work prefigures modern neuroscience, not only in his emphasis on em...
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2003, hardcover with dust jacket, good copy [Auteur: Damasio, Antonio R.] [Taal: nl] [Uitgever: Harcourt] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: Looking for Spinoza / Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain]
