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Wiley-Blackwell
Language
English
Pages
234

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Subjects
Physiology, Physiological aspects, Love, Brain, Concept Formation, Creative ability, Concept, Physiological aspects of Creative ability, Physiological aspects of Love, Creativeness, Art, Physiological aspects of Concept, Concepts, Brain, physiology, Creativity

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Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness
2011, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in English
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Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness
2011, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in English
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Splendors and miseries of the brain: love, creativity, and the quest for human happiness
2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Table of Contents

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 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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612.8/2
Library of Congress
QP376 .Z39 2009, QP376.Z39 2009

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p. ;
Number of pages
234

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OL16959830M
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ISBN 13
9781405185585, 9781405185578
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2008029045
OCLC/WorldCat
233261193
Library Thing
8084731
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6018108
6018107

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