A review by headrook
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

2.0

This book was an exercise by the author, Jonah Lehrer, in bringing together art and science, suggesting that artists, through self examination of their own minds, were aware of aspects of the human mind far before scientists who follow conventional methodologies. The arguments for some of his points seemed a stretch by the author, but sound nonetheless. This book was an academic exercise in proving his points and was not a pleasurable or enlightening reading experience. (The most interesting chapters were the chapter on Walt Whitman and "The Substance of Feeling" and the chapter on Virgina Woolf and "The Emergent Self.")