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
- Title:
- Splendors and miseries of the brain : love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness /: love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness. ([2011?])
- Main Title:
- Splendors and miseries of the brain : love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness
- 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.
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- 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).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.508322
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