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    Title
    Looking for Spinoza
    Subtitle
    Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Antonio R. Damasio
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 368
    Width: 129 mm
    Height: 198 mm
    Thickness: 23 mm
    Weight: 303 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Professional and scholarly
    College/higher education
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780099421832
    ISBN 10: 0099421836
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: PSY024000
    BISAC category code: PHI000000
    BIC subject category: PD
    BICMainSubject: HP
    Dewey: 152.4
    LC classification: BF511
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S2.3
    BISAC category code: SCI000000
    BISAC category code: PSY020000
    Illustrations note
    diagrams, illustrations
    Publisher
    VINTAGE
    Imprint name
    VINTAGE
    Publication date
    06 May 2004
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Biographical note
    ANTONIO DAMASIO is University Professor, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. Damasio's other books include Descartes' Error; The Feeling of What Happens; and Self Comes to Mind. He has received the Honda Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and, shared with his wife Hanna, the Pessoa, Signoret, and Cozzarelli prizes. Damasio is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.
    Promotional headline
    'Looking for Spinoza is exceptionally engaging and profoundly gratifying. Its erudition and wisdom provide a powerful statement that the pursuit of scientific knowledge about the human brain can go hand in hand with an overarching concern for our fellow humans' Nature
    Main description
    Subtitled "Joy, Sorrow & the Feeling Brain", this is an exploration of the science of human emotion from the perspective of the great 17th century Dutch philosoper. "Rich and informative" "New Scientist"
    Review quote
    "Big claims, well made: it is a rare pleasure to pick up such a rigorous and readable book about scientific advance that is so firmly anchored in philosophical history" Time Out "Virtually all the interesting philosophy today is done, not by professional philosophers, but by scientists like Damasio... The map may be incomplete, but thanks to Damasio we do at least know the principal landmarks" New Humanist "Damasio's book interweaves lucid and fascinating explanations of neurological findings with historical and philosophical ruminations on Spinoza... Rich and informative" New Scientist "There is much in this book to please Damasio's fans. He is a lively and humane writer, and ranges easily across a wide variety of topics" Independent