The Feeling of What Happens

Author(s): Professor Antonio R Damasio

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Antonio Damasio examines the biological roots of consciousness and its role in our survival in "The Feeling of What Happens." How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? A gifted medical clinician and scientific thinker, Damasio helps readers to ask and answer questions about what it is to be human. His elegant investigation of feeling and emotion offers a new understanding of the conscious mind and, as the "New York Times" has noted, "will change your experience of yourself."

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"One of the best brain stories of the decade...A must read book for anyone wanting a neurologist's perspective on one of the great unsolved mysteries."--The New York Times
"Stunning...Unashamedly grapples with these issues, and in the process provides the first truly compelling neurobiological account of the self."--Nature
"Both Descartes' Error and The Feeling of What Happens are essential reading. They are ground-breaking classics of psychology and neuroscience. These are books to buy, keep and ponder upon."--Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
"A tour de force of intuition, investigation and integration."--Sunday Times (London)
"What makes his views so noteworthy is that they're grounded not in theoretical musings but in years of clinical research."--Time
"This is not casual reading, but eventually anyone can master it; it will change your experience of yourself."--The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
"A landmark in the interdisciplinary project of consciousness research."--Scientific American
"Damasio is just the one to show you how fascinating you really are."--The Bloomsbury Review

General Fields

  • : 9780156010757
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
  • : 0.508
  • : October 2000
  • : 229mm X 153mm X 27mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Professor Antonio R Damasio
  • : Paperback / softback
  • : English
  • : 153
  • : 400
  • : illustrations