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The Feeling Of What Happens

Antonio Damasio author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

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Neurophysiology expert, Professor Antonio Damasio, shows how consciousness develops out of mental and physical feeling in this poetic and illuminating book.

The Feeling of What Happens will change your experience of yourself’ New York Times

Where do our emotions come from?

The Feeling of What Happens will change your experience of yourself’ New York Times

Where do our emotions come from? What does it mean to be conscious?

At its core, human consciousness is awareness of the feeling, experiencing self, the 'very thought of' oneself.
Brilliantly wide-ranging in his scope, leading expert on the neurophysiology of emotions Antonio Damasio illustrates his thesis with fascinating and illuminating neurological case studies that are both stimulating and provocative.

The life-changing read of the year... The book is crammed with tiny gems of information with which to reassess how you look at the world and think about yourself -- Katie Mitchell * Guardian *
A tour de force...a monumental book...a gem of a work -- Anthony Clare * Sunday Times *
Compelling...a story told with clarity and pace, unencumbered by unnecessary technical jargon and illustrated with insightful clinical anecdotes * The Times *
A fascinating and suggestive book * Literary Review *
Both Descartes' Error and The Feeling of What Happens are essential reading. They are groundbreaking classics of psychology and neuroscience. These are the books to buy, keep and ponder upon. Do so, and you will be ahead of the ruck by at least a decade * Journal Of The Royal Society of Medicine *

ISBN: 9780099288763

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 24mm

Weight: 277g

400 pages