Proust Was a Neuroscientist Paperback / softback
by Jonah Lehrer
Paperback / softback
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Is science the only path to knowledge?In this sparkling and provocative book, Jonah Lehrer 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 malleability; how the French chef Escoffier intuited umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne 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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Canongate Books
- Publication Date:19/04/2012
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- ISBN:9780857862310
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Canongate Books
- Publication Date:19/04/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780857862310