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	• Proust Was a Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer Mariner Books, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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Refreshing

I loved it. It made me look at arts, science and philosophy through a new window. The style is engaging, clear and dynamic. I had read the thousands of pages of the "Search of the lost time" in French. Jonah Lehrer gave me a fresh perspective.

I LOVED IT!

One of the most thought-provoking books I've read in a long, long time. It really is just a feast of insight. So many unexpected connections...From Whitman's time as a nurse to Proust's writing habits to how Woolf's mental illness impacted her writing. If you are interested in art and science and how they might intersect, a great read!

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Wonderful

First off, I have not read such elegant prose as this in ages. Jonah Lehrer's style effuses artistry. It was incredibly refreshing, but now I thirst for more. Unfortunately, there is only one Jonah Lehrer and few with his skill, at least within the scientific realm. He is able to set music to neurotransmitters and make them dance.

Secondly, not only is there a wide variety of stories here, each and every one is fascinating by itself. Topics range from visual art to music to poetry to writing, weaved together with science ranging from the molecular level all the way up to the systems level. Some of his ideas are not entirely original, but they certainly have been presented in an entirely original way, and in perhaps the most captivating and convincing manner yet.

Truly an excellent book.

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As Jonah Lehrer demonstrates in this sparkling debut, science is not
the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding
the brain, art got there first.Taking a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-
century artists -- a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful
of novelists -- Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth
about the mind that neuroscience is only now rediscovering. We learn,
for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how
George Eliot understood the brain's malleability; how the French chef
Escoffier intuited umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the
subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure
of language. It's a riveting tale of art trumping science again and
again.

An ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science
writing, Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more
closely to each other, for willing minds can combine the best of both, to
brilliant effect.

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