[MD] Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

MarshaV valkyr at att.net
Fri Mar 22 23:33:00 PDT 2013


Hi Craig,

On Mar 22, 2013, at 2:34 AM, Craig Erb <craig_erb at ymail.com> wrote:

> I don't know about Lehrer, plagarism or the extent of the James connection.
> The book explores the way Proust anticipated later scientific findings concerning memory,
> Cezanne anticipated findings concerning vision, Stravinsky concerning hearing, Gertrude
> Stein and language, Woolf and personality, etc.  All these connections are not fixed in
> advance but depend on the interrelation of art and the mind. 
> 
> Craig
> 

You've made the book sound interesting enough that I ordered a copy.  Thanks for the suggestion.
 
 
Marsha


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