The Strange Order Of Things - Life, Feeling and the Making of Cultures

From one of the world's preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling and culture.

About the author

ANTONIO DAMASIO is the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, and professor of psychology, neurology and philosophy at USC, where he heads the Brain and Creativity Institute. His influential research has centred on the important role of emotion in social cognition.

Summary

From one of the world's preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling and culture.

Additional text

'This disturbing book shakes our conceptions of the mechanisms behind life, mind and culture. The author brings them together in a single perspective centered on homeostasis ... It is incredibly, formidably, refreshing ... A strange and ambitious book, which draws on multiple disciplines and moves across time and space to give us, very simply, a new definition of life' Revue Medicale Suisse

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Damasio, Damasio Antonio, Antonio Damsio
• Publisher: Robinson Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.11.2021
• EAN: 9781472147363
• ISBN: 978-1-4721-4736-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; popular science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, Popular psychology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Popular philosophy, Neurosciences, Cognitive and behavioural neuroscience