Eric R. Kandel is University Professor and Kavli Professor at Columbia University and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Kandel is founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on memory storage in the brain. He is the author of In Search of Memory, a memoir that won a Los Angeles Times Book Award, and co-author of Principles of Neural Science, the standard textbook in the field. He was born in Vienna and lives in New York with his wife, Denise.
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art.
At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists met in glittering salons, where they freely exchanged ideas that led to revolutionary breakthroughs in psychology, brain science, literature, and art. Kandel takes us into the world of Vienna to trace, in rich and rewarding detail, the ideas and advances made then, and their enduring influence today.
The Vienna School of Medicine led the way with its realization that truth lies hidden beneath the surface. That principle infused Viennese culture and strongly influenced the other pioneers of Vienna 1900. Sigmund Freud shocked the world with his insights into how our everyday unconscious aggressive and erotic desires are repressed and disguised in symbols, dreams, and behavior. Arthur Schnitzler revealed women’s unconscious sexuality in his novels through his innovative use of the interior monologue. Gustav Klimt, Oscar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele created startlingly evocative and honest portraits that expressed unconscious lust, desire, anxiety, and the fear of death.
Kandel tells the story of how these pioneers—Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele—inspired by the Vienna School of Medicine, in turn influenced the founders of the Vienna School of Art History to ask pivotal questions such as What does the viewer bring to a work of art? How does the beholder respond to it? These questions prompted new and ongoing discoveries in psychology and brain biology, leading to revelations about how we see and perceive, how we think and feel, and how we respond to and create works of art. Kandel, one of the leading scientific thinkers of our time, places these five innovators in the context of today’s cutting-edge science and gives us a new understanding of the modernist art of Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele, as well as the school of thought of Freud and Schnitzler. Reinvigorating the intellectual enquiry that began in Vienna 1900, The Age of Insight is a wonderfully written, superbly researched, and beautifully illustrated book that also provides a foundation for future work in neuroscience and the humanities. It is an extraordinary book from an international leader in neuroscience and intellectual history.
發表於2024-05-29
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發售前在網上訂的,現在讀完瞭,隨便說兩句吧: 總體來說這本書不如他的自傳In search of memory寫的好。我覺得是因為 (1)Kandel想要寫的東西可能太多太雜瞭些,內容雜很難揉閤成一個有機的整體,不太好平衡廣度和深度。讀來略感章節間重復較多;章節內部有...
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評分 評分 評分發售前在網上訂的,現在讀完瞭,隨便說兩句吧: 總體來說這本書不如他的自傳In search of memory寫的好。我覺得是因為 (1)Kandel想要寫的東西可能太多太雜瞭些,內容雜很難揉閤成一個有機的整體,不太好平衡廣度和深度。讀來略感章節間重復較多;章節內部有...
圖書標籤: 心理學 神經科學 思維 藝術 Psychology 心理 Insight 藝術史
不讀這本書,都不好意思說自己愛看英文書。
評分不讀這本書,都不好意思說自己愛看英文書。
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評分kindle 電子書插圖清晰度慘不忍睹。探討科學(腦科學、心理學、哲學;意識、視覺、智能、潛意識等)和藝術(特彆是越來越誇張變形的近現代藝術)之間的關係。感覺中心思想是 beholder's share,現代藝術越來越強調觀眾的參與在作品“完成”中的作用;這樣來講的話,現代藝術有點像一個漫長地尋找人的大腦神經網絡的 adversarial example 的探尋過程(並且還是 black box, gradient free……)
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