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	• Proust Was a Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer Houghton Mifflin, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A fine, fine little book....

Don't buy this book if you're looking for some new definitive something or other regarding Proust. Marcel gets only one chapter, but what a fine chapter that is.

Buy it if you love fine writing, fine painting, haute cuisine and magnificent neuroscience.

Buy it if you have any pretensions towards being civilized.

I owe nothing to the author, who has never heard of me, and I work not in any nearby intellectual field.

I write as one who saw, who bought and who is much enjoying.

Not to be missed

If you want to know how your brain works but have no desire to read a scientific treatise on the subject, then this book is for you. The premise is refined and beckoning. The name Proust in the title encouraged me to pick up the book, but perusing the jacket had me hooked. Artists as scientific validation? I had to find out how these two seemingly unique areas could be so intertwined. Reading each chapter, one must savor the full experience of what the author has written. I found taking a break between each new chapter revelation enabled me to reflect and find similar thoughts and discoveries in my own life and thoughts. This prepares you for the next disclosure. For the artist, reader and budding hedonist in you - this book will bring them all together.

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Good book, lame premise

Overall an interesting read if you like science and psychology. However, his argument that artists intuited what scientists later confirmed is kind of...well, lame. Of course! If you search through history long enough, you will find that some artist (writer, philosopher, dramatist, chef, whatever) had an idea that was later proven correct by science. I could probably also search and find millions of ideas espoused by intelligent, thoughtful non-scientists that later turned out to be wrong, but what would be the point? Nevertheless, the author does show a lot of respect for the scientific method and uses interesting examples.

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A Genius Writes About Other Geniuses

To be quite frank, this review is probably a bit biased. I have loved everything that Jonah has ever put his hands on. From his work for Seed Magazine to his brilliant discourse on the show Radio Lab, he has proven himself to be one of the great modern minds. This book is no different. Though the subject of how creative works inform science has been broached before, I'm not sure it has been broached with such lovely, readable, and brilliant language. Proust only receives one chapter, but this should not turn off the reader, for it is the entirety of the work that makes it so worthwhile.

A brilliant read. A brilliant author.

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Lehrer is an up-in-coming giant of the field!

As a professional musician and a long time student of neuroscience, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in amazing connections, though not the dry, action potential laden synaptic type. In "Proust was a Neuroscientist", Jonah Lehrer eloquently steers the reader through the intertwined histories of art and science, vividly illustrating how art often trumps science, finding conclusions before hypotheses are even posed in a lab. Lehrer should be commended for his beautiful style and effortless story telling ability. Well done!

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