Is science the only path to knowledge?

In this sparkling and provocative book, Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers, painters and composers, Lehrer shows us how artists have discovered truths about the human mind - real, tangible truths - that science is only now rediscoveringWe 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 Virginia Woolf pierced the mysteries of consciousness It''s a riveting tale of art trumping science again and again.

Format Häftad Omfång 256 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Canongate Books Utgivningsdatum 2012-04-19 ISBN 9780857862310