Semir Zeki

Splendors and Miseries of the Brain (eBook, ePUB)

Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Splendors and Miseries of the Brain examines the elegant and efficient machinery of the brain, showing that by studying music, art, literature, and love, we can reach important conclusions about how the brain functions. * discusses creativity and the search for perfection in the brain * examines the power of the unfinished and why it has such a powerful hold on the imagination * discusses Platonic concepts in light of the brain * shows that aesthetic theories are best understood in terms of the brain * discusses the inherited concept of unity-in-love using evidence derived from the world literature of love * addresses the role of the synthetic concept in the brain (the synthesis of many experiences) in relation to art, using examples taken from the work of Michelangelo, Cézanne, Balzac, Dante, and others

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444359473
• Artikelnr.: 38309569

Autorenporträt

Semir Zeki is a visual neurobiologist in the Department of Cognitive Neurology at University College London. Zeki has pioneered the study of the primate visual brain and furthered research on how affective states are generated by visual inputs. He has published extensively in his field, including the books Inner Vision: an exploration of art and the brain (1999) and A Vision of the Brain (Blackwell Scientific, Oxford), and has also co-authored a book with the late French painter Balthus, entitled La Quête de l'essentiel (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I. Abstraction and the Brain. 1.
Abstraction. 2. The Brain and Its Concepts. 3. Inherited Brain Concepts. 4.
The Distributed Knowledge-Acquiring System of the Brain. 5. The Acquired
Synthetic Brain Concepts. 6. The Synthetic Brain Concept and the Platonic
Ideal. 7. Creativity and the Source of Perfection in the Brain. Part II.
Brain Concepts and Ambiguity. 8. Ambiguity in the Brain and in Art. 9.
Processing and Perceptual Sites in the Brain. 10. From Unambiguous to
Ambiguous Knowledge. 11. Higher Levels of Ambiguity. Part III. Unachievable
Brain Concepts. Introduction. 12. Michelangelo and the non-finito. 13. Paul
Cézanne and the Unfinished. 14. Unfinished Art in Literature. Part VI.
Brain Concepts of Love. Conte By Arthur Rimbaud, in English and in French.
15. The Brain's Concepts of Love. 16. The Neural Correlates of Love. 17.
Brain Concepts of Unity and Annihilation in Love. 18. Sacred and Profane.
19. The Metamorphosis of the Brain Concept of Love in Dante. 20. Wagner and
Tristan und Isolde. 21. Thomas Mann and Death in Venice. 22. A
neurobiological analysis of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents

Rezensionen

"This is going to lead to a new way of writing about the arts, and a new audience for certain kinds of science at the same time. (Start The Week, Radio 4, November 2008)