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Looking for Spinoza

Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

By Antonio Damasio

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| Hardcover | 9780151005574

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Completing the trilogy that began with Descartes' Error and continued with The Feeling of What Happens, noted neuroscientist Antonio Damasio now focuses the full force of his research and wisdom on emotions. He shows how joy and sorrow are cornerstones of our survival. As he investigatContinue

Completing the trilogy that began with Descartes' Error and continued with The Feeling of What Happens, noted neuroscientist Antonio Damasio now focuses the full force of his research and wisdom on emotions. He shows how joy and sorrow are cornerstones of our survival. As he investigates the cerebral mechanisms behind emotions and feelings, Damasio argues that the internal regulatory processes not only preserve life within ourselves, but they create, motivate, and even shape our greatest cultural accomplishments.
If Descartes declared a split between mind and body, Spinoza not only unified the two but intuitively understood the role of emotions in human survival and culture. So it is Spinoza who accompanies Damasio as he journeys back to the seventeenth century in search of a philosopher who, in Damasio's view, prefigured modern neuroscience.
In Looking for Spinoza Damasio brings us closer to understanding the delicate interaction between affect, consciousness, and memory--the processes that both keep us alive and make life worth living.

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  • I feel therefore I am

    Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio 320pp, Heinemann, £20 A new treatment for Parkinson's disease involves implanting tiny electrodes in the patient's brain-stem. A low-intensity electrical current then charges t ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Exit Cogito

    Antonio Damasio’s two previous books, Descartes’s Error and The Feeling of What Happens, appealed not only to scientists. The citations, prizes and honours, not to mention the author’s photograph, reveal that Damasio, one of the world’s leading neuro ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 368 Pages
  • Edition: 1st ed
  • ISBN-10: 0151005575
  • ISBN-13: 9780151005574
  • Publisher: Harcourt
  • Pub date: Feb 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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