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Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

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Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

by Damasio, Antonio

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0151005575
ISBN 13
9780151005574
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Mariner Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x9. Unmarked book. Unclipped dust jacket under clear mylar cover, with chipping. Damasio draws on his innovative research and on his experience with neurological patients to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie them support human survival and enable the spirit's greatest creations. 356p. Index. Glossary. Notes. Appendices.

Synopsis

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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Bookseller
Diatrope Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
23861
Title
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
Author
Damasio, Antonio
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
very good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0151005575
ISBN 13
9780151005574
Publisher
Mariner Books
Place of Publication
Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
Date Published
2003
Size
6x1x9
Keywords
Consciousness, Neuroscience, Neurology, History of Ideas, Intellectual History, Philosophy, Cognitive and Neurosciences
X weight
22 oz

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