Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain

Author(s) : Antonio Damasio

Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain

Book Details

  • Publisher : Minerva Books
  • Published : 2004
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 356
  • Category :
    Neuroscience
  • Category 2 :
    Popular Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 92438
  • ISBN 13 : 9780099421832
  • ISBN 10 : 0099421836
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Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not be essential for comprehending human rationality and understanding, they have largely been ignored. But, not by the great seventeenth century Dutch philosopher Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. In this book, Dr Damasio draws on his innovative research and on his experience with neurological patients to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie them support the governance of human affairs.

About the Author(s)

Born in Portugal, Antonio Damasio is Van Allen Distinguished Professor and head of the department of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He is the author of Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain and The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness.

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