Being Brains : Making the Cerebral Subject

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Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms across a range of contexts, including mental health, the human sciences, and literature and film.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vidal, Fernando
Other Authors: Ortega, Francisco
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Philosophical anthropology.
Human beings.
Brain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
philosophical anthropology.
Homo sapiens (species)
brains.
Anthropologie philosophique.
Homme.
Cerveau.
Brain
Humans
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms across a range of contexts, including mental health, the human sciences, and literature and film.
Physical Description:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9780823276097

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