Proust was a neuroscientist (Record no. 565223)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780547085906 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | IIT Kanpur |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 700.105 |
| Item number | L529p |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Lehrer, Jonah |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Proust was a neuroscientist |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Jonah Lehrer |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Place of publication | Boston |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x, 242p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | An ingenious blend of biography, criticism and first-rate science writing, New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer's 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.<br/><br/>In this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues 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.<br/><br/>Taking a group of 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 science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the brain’s malleability; how the French chef Escoffier discovered umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language — a full half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists.<br/><br/>Proust Was a Neuroscientist is the ultimate tale of art trumping science, demonstrating that there’s a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same as understanding, and art knows this better than science does. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Neurosciences -- Arts |
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| Topical Term | Neurosciences |
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| Koha item type | Books |
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| General Stacks | PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | 13/06/2022 | 102 | 747.47 | 700.105 L529p | A185716 | 1167.27 | Books |