Splendors and miseries of the brain : love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness /: love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness. ([2011?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Semir Zeki.
• Authors: Zeki, Semir
• Contents: Abstraction -- The brain and its concepts -- Inherited brain concepts -- The distributed knowledge-acquiring system of the brain -- The acquired synthetic brain concepts -- The synthetic brain concept and the platonic ideal -- Creativity and the source of perfection in the brain -- Ambiguity in the brain and in art -- Processing and perceptual sites in the brain -- From unambiguous to ambiguous knowledge -- Higher levels of ambiguity -- Michelangelo and the non-finito -- Paul Cézanne and the unfinished -- Unfinished art in literature -- Conte by Arthur Rimbaud -- The brain's concepts of love -- The neural correlates of love -- Brain concepts of unity and annihilation in love -- Sacred and profane -- The metamorphosis of the brain concept of love in Dante -- Wagner and Tristan und Isolde -- Thomas Mann and Death in Venice -- A neurobiological analysis of Freud's civilization and its discontents.
• Publisher Details: Chichester, UK Malden, Mass : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 612.82; Brain -- Physiology; Concepts -- Physiological aspects; Creative ability -- Physiological aspects; Love -- Physiological aspects; MEDICAL -- Physiology; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology; Brain -- Physiology; Creative ability -- Physiological aspects; Love -- Physiological aspects; Ästhetik; Physiologische Psychologie; Kreativität; Glück; Glück; Brain -- physiology; Art; Concept Formation -- physiology; Creativity; Love; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781444359473; 1444359479
• Related ISBNs: 9781405185585; 1405185589; 9781405185578; 1405185570
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and indexes.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.