MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02181cam a22003858a 4500
001 2008029045
003 DLC
005 20100217092726.0
008 080630s2009 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008029045
020 $a9781405185585 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9781405185578 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(DNLM)101477801
040 $aDNLM/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQP376$b.Z39 2009
060 10 $aWL 300$bZ49s 2009
082 00 $a612.8/2$222
100 1 $aZeki, Semir.
245 10 $aSplendors and miseries of the brain :$blove, creativity, and the quest for human happiness /$cSemir Zeki.
260 $aChichester ;$aMalden, MA :$bWiley-Blackwell,$c2009.
263 $a0901
300 $ap. ;$ccm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAbstraction -- 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 Cézanne and the unfinished -- Unfinished art in literature -- Conte by Arthur Rimbaud, in English and in French -- The brain's 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 Freud's civilization and its discontents.
650 0 $aBrain$xPhysiology.
650 0 $aConcept$xPhysiological aspects.
650 0 $aCreative ability$xPhysiological aspects.
650 0 $aLove$xPhysiological aspects.
650 12 $aBrain$xphysiology.
650 22 $aArt.
650 22 $aConcept Formation$xphysiology.
650 22 $aCreativeness.
650 22 $aLove.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0822/2008029045.html