Splendors and miseries of the brain: love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness/

Main Author: Zeki, Semir
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
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245 1 0 |a Splendors and miseries of the brain:   |b love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness/  |c Semir Zeki 
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300 |a viii, 234 p., [2] p. of plates :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and indexes. 
505 0 |a 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 Ce?zanne and the unfinished -- Unfinished art in literature -- Conte by Arthur Rimbaud, in English and in French -- The brainΉs 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 FreudΉs civilization and its discontents. 
650 0 |a Brain  |x Physiology 
650 0 |a Concept  |x Physiological aspects 
650 0 |a Creative ability  |x Psychological aspects 
650 0 |a Love  |x Physiological aspects 
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