The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience
Jason Tougaw
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Descripció
Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, The Elusive Brain is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature's engagement with neuroscience. This fascinating book explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the brain's relationship to the self.Jason Tougaw surveys the work of contemporary writers-including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Siri Hustvedt, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay-analyzing the way they experiment with literary forms to frame new views of the immaterial experiences that compose a self. He argues that their work offers a necessary counterbalance to a wider cultural neuromania that seeks out purely neural explanations for human behaviors as varied as reading, economics, empathy, and racism. Building on recent scholarship, Tougaw's evenhanded account will be an original contribution to the growing field of neuroscience and literature.
Detalls del producte
Editorial
Yale University Press
Data de publicació
03 de Juliol de 2018
Idioma
Anglès
Tipus
Tapa dura
EAN/UPC
9780300221176
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