Metamorphoses of the Brain - Neurologisation and Its Discontents

Informationen zum Autor Jan De Vos is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published widely on the topic of psychologization and the neuroturn, including  Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity. Klappentext What are we exactly! when we are said to be our brain? This question leads Jan De Vos to examine the different metamorphoses of the brain: the educated brain! the material brain! the iconographic brain! the sexual brain! the celebrated brain and! finally! the political brain. This first book-length argument on neurologisation! which lays bare its lineage with psychologisation! should be taken seriously by psychologists! educationalists! sociologists! students of cultural studies! policy makers and! above all! neuroscientists themselves. Zusammenfassung What are we exactly, when we are said to be our brain? This question leads Jan De Vos to examine the different metamorphoses of the brain: the educated brain, the material brain, the iconographic brain, the sexual brain, the celebrated brain and, finally, the political brain. This first, protracted and sustained argument on neurologisation, which lays bare its lineage with psychologisation, should be taken seriously by psychologists, educationalists, sociologists, students of cultural studies, policy makers and, above all, neuroscientists themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. The Education Brain.- Chapter 2. The Material Brain.- Chapter 3. The Iconographic Brain.- Chapter 4. The Sexual Brain.- Chapter 5. The Celebrated Brain.- Chapter 6. The Political Brain.

List of contents

Chapter 1. The Education Brain.- Chapter 2. The Material Brain.- Chapter 3. The Iconographic Brain.- Chapter 4. The Sexual Brain.- Chapter 5. The Celebrated Brain.- Chapter 6. The Political Brain. 

Product details

• Authors: Jan De Vos, Jan De Vos
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2016
• EAN: 9781137505569
• ISBN: 978-1-137-50556-9
• No. of pages: 259
• Series: Perspektiven der Mathematikdidaktik; Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; B, Philosophy of Mind, Psychological theory, systems, schools & viewpoints, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Self, Behavioral Science and Psychology, neuropsychology, Philosophy of the Self, Self and Identity, Identity (Psychology), Critical Psychology, Neuropsychology;Thought;Consciousness;Cerebral;Neurology