The Book Depository Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
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Description: Proust Was a Neuroscientist : Paperback : Cengage Learning, Inc : 9780547085906 : 0547085907 : 01 Sep 2008 : Lehrer argues in this original book that science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, where the brain is concerned, art got there first. Focusing on a group of artists, Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the human mind that science is only now rediscovering. The Book Depository Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: David Dunbar
Rating: 5
Review: For anyone of an artistic bent, Lehrer's book is both a relief and an inspiration. The shock of the new is a product of how our brains work. And how that shock becomes the familiar (we can listen to the Rite of Spring today without needing to cover our ears)is also a product of how the brain works. Each chapter focuses on a different artist and demonstrates their contribution to civilisation which neuroscience is only just beginning to understand. Lehrer is an erudite guide and writes well for the interested lay person. Highly recommended.
Author: RF Esher
Rating: 3
Review: An interesting account of recent developments in neuroscience interspersed with essays on late 19th/early 20th century literary and artistic figures whose works seem to foreshadow them. Some of the alleged connections are however rather tenuous and/or not as remarkable as the author seems to think, and some statements make me worry how much the factual accuracy of the book can by relied on (e.g. describing Proust's Combray as a suburb of Paris when the town on which it is based is 75 miles away).
