Splendors and miseries of the brain
Subtitle: love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness
By: Semir Zeki.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781405185585; 9781405185578
Subjects: Brain -- Physiology; Concept -- Physiological aspects; Creative ability -- Physiological aspects; Love -- Physiological aspects; Brain -- physiology; Art; Concept Formation -- physiology; Creativeness; Love
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Abstraction; title: The brain and its concepts; title: Inherited brain concepts; title: The distributed knowledge-acquiring system of the brain; title: The acquired synthetic brain concepts; title: The synthetic brain concept and the platonic ideal; title: Creativity and the source of perfection in the brain; title: Ambiguity in the brain and in art; title: Processing and perceptual sites in the brain; title: From unambiguous to ambiguous knowledge; title: Higher levels of ambiguity; title: Michelangelo and the non-finito; title: Paul Cézanne and the unfinished; title: Unfinished art in literature; title: Conte by Arthur Rimbaud, in English and in French; title: The brain's concepts of love; title: The neural correlates of love; title: Brain concepts of unity and annihilation in love; title: Sacred and profane; title: The metamorphosis of the brain concept of love in Dante; title: Wagner and Tristan und Isolde; title: Thomas Mann and death in Venice; title: A neurobiological analysis of Freud's civilization and its discontents.