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发表于2024-11-05
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Significant Seven, December 2007: Proust may have been more neurasthenic than neuroscientist, but Jonah Lehrer argues in Proust Was a Neuroscientist that he (and many of his fellow artists) made discoveries about the brain that it took science decades to catch up with (in Proust's case, that memory is a process, not a repository). Lehrer weaves back and forth between art and science in eight graceful portraits of artists (mostly writers, along with a chef, a painter, and a composer) who understood, better at times than atomizing scientists, that truth can begin with "what reality feels like." Sometimes it's the art that's most evocative in his tales, sometimes the science: Lehrer writes about them with equal ease and clarity, and with a youthful confidence that art and science, long divided, may yet be reconciled. --Tom Nissley --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
With impressively clear prose, Lehrer explores the oft-overlooked places in literary history where novelists, poets and the occasional cookbook writer predicted scientific breakthroughs with their artistic insights. The 25-year-old Columbia graduate draws from his diverse background in lab work, science writing and fine cuisine to explain how Cézanne anticipated breakthroughs in the understanding of human sight, how Walt Whitman intuited the biological basis of thoughts and, in the title essay, how Proust penetrated the mysteries of memory by immersing himself in childhood recollections. Lehrer's writing peaks in the essay about Auguste Escoffier, the chef who essentially invented modern French cooking. The author's obvious zeal for the subject of food preparation leads him into enjoyable discussions of the creation of MSG and the decidedly unappetizing history of 18th- and 19th-century culinary arts. Occasionally, the science prose risks becoming exceedingly dry (as in the enthusiastic section detailing the work of Lehrer's former employer, neuroscientist Kausik Si), but the hard science is usually tempered by Lehrer's deft way with anecdote and example. Most importantly, this collection comes close to exemplifying Lehrer's stated goal of creating a unified third culture in which science and literature can co-exist as peaceful, complementary equals. 21 b&w illus. (Nov.)
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We now know that Proust was right about memory, Cezanne was uncannily accurate about the visual cortex, Stein anticipated Chomsky, and Woolf pierced the mystery of consciousness; modern neuroscience has confirmed these artistic intuitions.
评分We now know that Proust was right about memory, Cezanne was uncannily accurate about the visual cortex, Stein anticipated Chomsky, and Woolf pierced the mystery of consciousness; modern neuroscience has confirmed these artistic intuitions.
评分這是文藝隨筆,跟科學沒太大關係——大概算是給文藝青年看的科普書籍⋯⋯
评分這是文藝隨筆,跟科學沒太大關係——大概算是給文藝青年看的科普書籍⋯⋯
评分這是文藝隨筆,跟科學沒太大關係——大概算是給文藝青年看的科普書籍⋯⋯
【The Invisible Cities】by Calvino reminded me this book【Proust was a Neuroscientist】 so I took it down my shelf and read it again. The pages have turned yellow - it’s been a while, published in 2007. The author Jonah Lehrer used to work in the lab of Er...
评分【The Invisible Cities】by Calvino reminded me this book【Proust was a Neuroscientist】 so I took it down my shelf and read it again. The pages have turned yellow - it’s been a while, published in 2007. The author Jonah Lehrer used to work in the lab of Er...
评分【The Invisible Cities】by Calvino reminded me this book【Proust was a Neuroscientist】 so I took it down my shelf and read it again. The pages have turned yellow - it’s been a while, published in 2007. The author Jonah Lehrer used to work in the lab of Er...
评分【The Invisible Cities】by Calvino reminded me this book【Proust was a Neuroscientist】 so I took it down my shelf and read it again. The pages have turned yellow - it’s been a while, published in 2007. The author Jonah Lehrer used to work in the lab of Er...
评分【The Invisible Cities】by Calvino reminded me this book【Proust was a Neuroscientist】 so I took it down my shelf and read it again. The pages have turned yellow - it’s been a while, published in 2007. The author Jonah Lehrer used to work in the lab of Er...
Proust Was a Neuroscientist pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024