The Age of Insight, Eric R. Kandel
The Age of Insight, Eric R. Kandel
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The Age of Insight
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

Author: Eric R. Kandel

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 16 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/05/2018

Synopsis

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.

About Eric R. Kandel

Eric R. Kandel is the University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor at Columbia University and a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory, he is the author of In Search of Memory, a memoir that won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, which won the Bruno Kreisky Award in Literature, Austria's highest literary award; and Reductionism in Art and Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, a book about the New York School of abstract art. He is also coauthor of Principles of Neural Science, the standard textbook in the field.

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Goodreads review by Adrian on December 30, 2013

Best book about bridging the two cultures: art(humanitarian) and science. The author already has a Nobel prize, so you know you are in good hands. We should invent a new award for books like these actually. It is even better if you read the book in Vienna as you can also see some of the paintings in......more

Goodreads review by SCARABOOKS on December 05, 2019

Passeggiata panoramica magnifica, con guida di livello: partenza dalla Vienna di inizio novecento a venire a noi, tra psicologia, neuroscienza, pittura e letteratura. Quando si dice che un libro (peraltro un oggetto di pregio di per se: grazie anche da qui a chi me lo ha regalato) ti cambia il modo......more

Goodreads review by Mehtap on February 18, 2021

Eric Kandel. Eine Koryphäe im Gebiet Neurowissenschaften hat es wieder mal geschafft, ein faszinierendes, unfassbar detailliertes wissenschaftliches Buch auf den Markt zu bringen, dass sowohl Kunst als auch die Wirkmechanismen des Gehirns vereint. Das Buch ist aufgeteilt in 2 Segmente. In dem ersten......more

Goodreads review by Randol on July 29, 2012

This is an incredible book, a real tour de force in explaining in layman's terms some of the most amazing and important recent developments in neuroscience, biology and psychology, at the same time relating them to the artistic achievements of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka in Vienna 1900. If there is......more

Goodreads review by Kunal on December 30, 2013

My year ended on a high note, by finishing this most remarkable book – Eric R Kandel’s The Age of Insight – The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present. The timing of this book was remarkable for me because it happened on the same year when my prim......more

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