The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Portrait of Your Head - Softcover

Tallis, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300158602 ISBN 13: 9780300158601

Verlag: YALE UNIV PR, 2009

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"Tallis is extremely erudite, writes very well, and mixes his medical knowledge with allusions to writers and poets. I would not have believed it possible to write a book about the head without focusing mostly on the brain, but that is exactly what he has done. And, it is remarkably engaging."-E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., author of Surviving Prostate Cancer -- E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.

"This is a most unusual and an unusually enjoyable book. As the author promises it is a rich feast of digressions. Tallis attacks his varied topics with unflinching straightforwardness and honesty, leavened by considerable humor."-Adam Zeman, author of Portrait of the Brain

"British medical doctor Tallis considers the looks and actions of the human head . . . Creative and proudly humanistic, Tallis'' tour might induce readers to scrutinize their reflections as minutely as Tallis does his own."-Booklist

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In this pathbreaking book, one of Britain’s most eloquent and original thinkers writes about the head, what happens in it, and how it is and is not connected to our sense of identity and consciousness. Blending science, philosophy, and humor, Raymond Tallis examines the extraordinarily complex relationship we have with our heads. His aim, as he says, “is to turn readers into astonished tourists of the piece of the world that is closest to them, so they never again take for granted the head that looks at them from the mirror.” Readers will delight that this is precisely what he accomplishes.

 

The voyage begins with a meditation on the self-portrait of a mirror image, followed by a consideration of the head’s various secretions. Tallis contemplates the air we exhale; the subtle meanings of nods, winks, and smiles; the mysteries of hearing, taste, and smell. He discusses the metaphysics of the gaze, the meaning of kissing, and the processes by which the head comes to understand the world. Along the way he offers intriguing digressions on such notions as “having” and “using” one’s head, and enjoying and suffering it. Tallis concludes with his thoughts on the very thing the reader’s head has been doing throughout the book: thinking.

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• Verlag: YALE UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300158602
• ISBN 13: 9780300158601
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324