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The mechanics of passions : brain, behaviour, and society /

"Cognitive neuroscience, once a specialized area of psychology and biology, has enjoyed increased worldwide legitimacy in the last thirty years not only in psychiatry and mental health, but also in fields as diverse as education, economics, marketing, and law. How can this surge in popularity b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ehrenberg, Alain (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The New Science of Human Behaviour
  • Exemplary Brains: From the Misfortunes of the Practical Subject to the Heroism of Hidden Potential
  • Scientific Method and Individualist Ideals: Converting Passions, from the Scottish Enlightenment to New Individualism
  • The Brain-as-Individual, a Physiology of Autonomy
  • Social Neuroscience, or How the Individual Acts with Others
  • Exercises in Autonomy: Individualist Rituals to Reconstruct One's Moral Being?
  • Is It My Ideas or My Brain That Is Making Me Sick? Neuroscience and Self-Knowledge
  • Conclusion: The Brain's Place: From the Neuronal Being to the Total Being.