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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
An ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science writing, New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer's...
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An ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science writing, New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer's Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more closely to each other, for willing minds can combine the best of both, to brilliant effect.
In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first.
Taking a group of artists -- a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful of novelists -- Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the mind that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the brain's malleability; how the French chef Escoffier discovered umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language -- a full half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is the ultimate tale of art trumping science, demonstrating that there's a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same as understanding, and art knows this better than science does.
Author: Jonah Lehrer
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.33h x 5.51w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780547085906
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/14/2008 pg. 28
About the Author
Lehrer, Jonah: -
In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first.
Taking a group of artists -- a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful of novelists -- Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the mind that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the brain's malleability; how the French chef Escoffier discovered umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language -- a full half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is the ultimate tale of art trumping science, demonstrating that there's a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same as understanding, and art knows this better than science does.
Author: Jonah Lehrer
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.33h x 5.51w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780547085906
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/14/2008 pg. 28
About the Author
Lehrer, Jonah: -
JONAH LEHRER is the New York Times bestselling author of A Book About Love, How We Decide, and Proust Was a Neuroscientist. His writing has also appeared in Wired, The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Nature, The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and Outside. Lehrer graduated from Columbia University and attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
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