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Looking for Spinoza: joy, sorrow, and the feeling brain

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Looking for Spinoza: joy, sorrow, and the feeling brain

by Damasio, Antonio

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New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2003. Hardcover. x, 355p., appendices, notes, glossary, index, illustrations, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. The neuroscientist's investigation into the life and thoughts of Spinoza and the relationship to his own studies of the human brain and its connection to emotions.

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Completing the trilogy that began with Descartes' Error and continued with The Feeling of What Happens , noted neuroscientist Antonio Damasio now focuses the full force of his research and wisdom on emotions. He shows how joy and sorrow are cornerstones of our survival. As he investigates the cerebral mechanisms behind emotions and feelings, Damasio argues that the internal regulatory processes not only preserve life within ourselves, but they create, motivate, and even shape our greatest cultural accomplishments. If Descartes declared a split between mind and body, Spinoza not only unified the two but intuitively understood the role of emotions in human survival and culture. So it is Spinoza who accompanies Damasio as he journeys back to the seventeenth century in search of a philosopher who, in Damasio's view, prefigured modern neuroscience. In Looking for Spinoza Damasio brings us closer to understanding the delicate interaction between affect, consciousness, and memory--the processes that both keep us alive and make life worth living.

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Title
Looking for Spinoza: joy, sorrow, and the feeling brain
Author
Damasio, Antonio
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Hardcover
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Used
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ISBN 10
0151005575
ISBN 13
9780151005574
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2003
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Philosophy; Literary criticism; History of Science and Medicine; Science;

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