Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

by Antonio Damasio (Author), Antonio Damasio (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  2003

  $7.54

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.51

  Damasio, an eminent neuroscientist explores the science of human emotion and what the great Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza can teach of how and why we feel. Damasio shows how joy and sorrow, those most defining of human feelings, are in fact the cornerstones of our survival and culture.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $15.03

  Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not to be essential for comprehending human rationality and understanding, they have largely been ignored. But not by the great seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Spinoza. And not by Antonio Damasio. In this book Dr. Damasio draws on his innovative research and on his experience with neurological patients to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie them support the governance of human affairs.