The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness - Hardcover

Damasio, Antonio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151003696 ISBN 13: 9780151003693

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

The publication of this book is an event in the making. All over the world scientists, psychologists, and philosophers are waiting to read Antonio Damasio's new theory of the nature of consciousness and the construction of the self. A renowned and revered scientist and clinician, Damasio has spent decades following amnesiacs down hospital corridors, waiting for comatose patients to awaken, and devising ingenious research using PET scans to piece together the great puzzle of consciousness. In his bestselling Descartes' Error, Damasio revealed the critical importance of emotion in the making of reason. Building on this foundation, he now shows how consciousness is created. Consciousness is the feeling of what happens-our mind noticing the body's reaction to the world and responding to that experience. Without our bodies there can be no consciousness, which is at heart a mechanism for survival that engages body, emotion, and mind in the glorious spiral of human life. A hymn to the possibilities of human existence, a magnificent work of ingenious science, a gorgeously written book, The Feeling of What Happens is already being hailed as a classic.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0151003696
• ISBN 13: 9780151003693
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
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