Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
Proust Was a Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer ebook
ISBN: 9780547085906
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page: 256
Format: pdf
You may be wondering what Marcel has to do with squids and neuroscientists. I bought this book partially because I used a new metric (not original to me, Marshall McLuhan first thought of it): I read page 69. Leon Wieseltier: “Do not believe the rumors of the obsolescence of your path. �Perhaps Culture is Now the Counterculture”. He clearly stated memories are constanly being renewed. Artists who anticipated the discoveries of neuroscience. Jonah Lehrer argues in Proust Was a Neuroscientist that Proust, along with eight other artists, made discoveries about the brain that took science decades to catch up with. When I joined the 2009 Science Book Challenge, I didn't intend to focus on neuroscience, but it turns out that that branch of science is absolutely fascinating to me. I just finished reading Jonah Lehrer's beautifully written book, Proust was a Neuroscientist. Proust used introspection to try and decode how memory works. Simon & Schuster is willing to give a second chance to Jonah Lehrer, the best-selling author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist. I finished reading, “How We Decide” on the flight home and in reading the last few pages noticed that Jonah Lehrer's first book was entitled, “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”. Marcel Proust is best known as a writer. "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" (Jonah Lehrer). Link: “Perhaps Culture is Now the Counterculture”. As far as I know, Proust never had an encounter with a squid while on the coast at Cabourg, and probably not in Paris either. Powered by Movable Type · The Laboratorium · Proust Was a Neuroscientist I give it 2 stars Haven't read it, but I did read Proust and the Squid. Now a new book argues that he—and others—were as much scientists as artists. It is about writers and painters and composers who discovered truths about the human mindthat science is only now rediscovering.