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Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Paperback)
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Paperback)
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List price R489
Loot Price R432
Discovery Miles 4 320
You Save R57 (12%)
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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 Cezanne 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.
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