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

Damasio, Antonio

ISBN 10: 0151003696 / ISBN 13: 9780151003693

Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999

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A new theory of consciousness and the construction of identity focuses on the body's reaction to its world, postulating that a complex relationship between body, emotion, and mind is required to configure the self. 40,000 first printing. Tour.

Recensione: "Antonio Damasio has done it again! Writing for the layman as well as the scientist, he constructs a compelling solution to the problem of consciousness."—Victoria Fromkin, UCLA
"This is an extraordinary book. I know of nothing like it."—Jerome Kagan, Harvard University
"There is no simpler way to say this: read the book to learn who you are."—Jorie Graham, Poet and Pulitzer Prize Winner
"Everyone will be talking about it; everyone will have to read it."—Patricia and Paul Churchland, UCSD

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Titolo: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and ...
Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good