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A review by dianaj23
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
5.0
This book is the 2018's revelation. In "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" Jonah Lehrerdescribes how artists have managed to discover realities about human brain long before science has even begun to grasp them. This book's "characters" are Walt Whitman, George Elliot, Auguste Escoffier, Marcel Proust, Paul Cezanne, Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. Their art anticipated revelations about how we really see, feel, speak. Ahead of their times, in the light of science their mastery becomes even more clear.
And what Jonah Lehrer tries to do in this marvelous volume is to reconcile art and science. Their relationship has gain a bad reputation throughout time, but Lehrer points out, in clear language and with obvious passion, that they enhance, rather than cancelling each other.
That one without the other is not possible. Not if we want to understand the world we live in completely.
And what Jonah Lehrer tries to do in this marvelous volume is to reconcile art and science. Their relationship has gain a bad reputation throughout time, but Lehrer points out, in clear language and with obvious passion, that they enhance, rather than cancelling each other.
That one without the other is not possible. Not if we want to understand the world we live in completely.