Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human HappinessISBN: 978-1-4051-8557-8
Paperback
244 pages
December 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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- explores how art and literature provide insight into how the
brain works
- discusses creativity and the search for perfection in the
brain
- examines the power of the unfinished and why it has such a
powerful hold on the imagination
- discusses Platonic concepts in light of the brain
- shows that aesthetic theories are best understood in terms of
the brain
- discusses the inherited concept of unity-in-love using evidence
derived from the world literature of love
- addresses the role of the synthetic concept in the brain (the synthesis of many experiences) in relation to art, using examples taken from the work of Michelangelo, Cézanne, Balzac, Dante, and others