Antonio R. Damasio

Linking the process of rational decision making to emotions, a scientist who has done extensive research with brain-damaged patients notes the dependence of thought processes on feelings and the body's survival-oriented regulators. Reprint.

Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Descartes' Error

he Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of regulating life within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other life-forms; and that inherent in the very chemistry of life is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life. The Strange Order of Things offers us a new way of understanding the world and our place in it.

Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

The Strange Order of Things

A new theory of consciousness and the construction of identity focuses on the body's reaction to its world, postulating that a complex relationship between body, emotion, and mind is required to configure the self. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

The Feeling of what Happens

A leading neuroscientist addresses key questions about the origins and mechanisms of human consciousness, drawing on decades of research to challenge beliefs about the separateness of consciousness from the body while presenting a revisionist perspective built on traditional approaches. By the author of Descartes' Error. 50,000 first printing.

Constructing the Conscious Brain

Self Comes to Mind

Investigates the cerebral mechanisms behind emotions and feelings to explain the role between emotion, survival, and cultural accomplishment.

Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

Looking for Spinoza

E O Cerebro Criou O Homem

O Erro de Descartes

emoxioni, sentimenti e cervello

Alla ricerca di Spinoza

Emozione e coscienza

Il sé viene alla mente. La costruzione del cervello cosciente

Body & Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

The Feeling of What Happens

Lo strano ordine delle cose. La vita, i sentimenti e la creazione della cultura

Tão revolucionárias para a sua época eram as idéias do filósofo judeu holandês Baruch Espinosa (1632-77) que ele foi excomungado e teve suas obras proibidas por décadas. HOje, é reconhecido como um dos pilares do pensamento ocidental. O Neurologista António Damásio, estudante de Espinosa na juventude, descobriu que as idéias desse pensador sobre um dos grandes temas da filosofia e da ciência - a questão da unidade entre mente e corpo - eram muito próximas daquelas da mais avançada neurociência. Damásio constatou, surpreso e fascinado, que Espinosa já intuíra que mente e corpo eram manifestações de uma mesma substância e que os sentimentos constituíam o alicerce da mente. EM busca de Espinosa completa a série de livros de Damásio sobre o papel da emoção e dos sentimentos nas relações entre a mente e o corpo, trilogia formada também por O erro de Descartes e O mistério da consciência. Os avanços recentes da neurociência, as pesquisas feitas em laboratório e as observações clínicas realizadas por Damásio e sua equipe levaram-no a supor que os sentimentos têm bases físicas, ou seja, originam-se no corpo, sendo "mapeados" no cérebro por intermédio dos sentidos. Damásio mostra como emoções e sentimentos fazem parte do processo regulador da vida e são essenciais não só para a sobrevivência física individual, mas também para o êxito da espécie humana. "O mais ousado, gratificante e pessoal dos livros de Damásio." - Oliver Sacks "Damásio está na vanguarda do que os neurocientistas chamam de 'revolução do afeto', movimento que está subvertendo décadas de conhecimento e repercutindo em diversas áreas." - The New York Times

prazer e dor na ciência dos sentimentos

Em busca de Espinosa

Hanna Damasio

Based on neuroanatomical studies in humans, this book describes the main behavioral syndromes resulting from focal brain damage, providing a comprehensive view of what is known about brain/behavior relationships.

Lesion Analysis in Neuropsychology

Aunque muchos de los científicos que intentan averiguar cómo comprendemos y pensamos los humanos parecen haberse olvidado de ello, las emociones –del tipo de, por ejemplo, la alegría, la tristeza, la envidia o la admiración– desempeñan un papel fundamental en nuestras vidas y son esenciales para entender realmente en qué consiste eso que denominamos “pensamiento humano”. Antonio Damasio, el neurólogo que ha dedicado su vida al estudio de las bases neurobiológicas de la vida humana, no es, ciertamente, uno de esos científicos en cuyos trabajos las emociones y sentimientos no encuentran lugar. En este nuevo libro, el profesor Damasio se suma, aunque desde el lado de la ciencia, de las neurociencias, a una tradición –no muy frecuentada, cierto es– que tiene en el filósofo holandés Spinoza (que consideraba que los sentimientos y emociones constituían los aspectos centrales de la “humanidad”) uno de sus principales exponentes. Nadie debería dejar de leer este En busca de Spinoza, obra tan actual como imprescindible para comprender el importante papel que juegan los sentimientos y cómo explica la biología nuestros mecanismos de supervivencia necesaria. PRÍNCIPE DE ASTURIAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TÉCNICA 2005

neurobiología de la emoción y los sentimientos

En busca de Spinoza

Yves Christen

Neuroscience has paid only little attention to decision-making for many years. Although no field of science has cohered around this topic, a variety of researchers in different areas of neuroscience ranging from cellular physiology to neuropsychology and computational neuroscience have been engaged in working on this issue. Thus, the time seemed to be ripe to bring these researchers together and discuss the state of the art of the neurobiology of decision-making in a broad forum. This book is a collection of contributions presented at that forum in Paris in October 1994 organized by the Fondation IPSEN.

Neurobiology of Decision-making

Antony Gormley

Kunsthaus Bregenz presents four major installations made by the artist Antony Gormley over the last 15 years in which we can trace a constant dialogue with the nature and dynamic of the sculptural project, the way that it investigates and occupies space, and the way that it invites us to re-orient ourselves, our perceptions and the terms of our self-knowledge. The exhibition brings together four key series from Gormley's oeuvre. Allotment and Critical Mass approach the collective body in dialectically different ways: body-forms falling or dropped, forming a chaotic and abject field, and void concrete cases arranged in a strict city grid. In contrast to these opposed masses and spaces Clearing creates a dynamic field: a drawing that acts like a web or nest to entrap and entrance the viewer, confusing and contradicting the clearly defined volumes of Peter Zumthor's architecture while remaining open to atmospheric changes of light. This sensation is contrasted by the results of a contained explosion where the physical meets the incommensurable in the seven tonnes of rusting iron that make up Body and Fruit. The essays are written by the well-known neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, who interprets the artist's work from the perspective of awareness research, the philosopher Marcus Steinweg, who examines the sculptures from an epistemological standpoint, and Yilmaz Dziewior, who explores Gormley's work from an art historical point of view. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, July ndash; October 2009.

Qu'est-ce qui fait de nous des hommes ? Le privilège d'être dotés d'une conscience ? Antonio Damasio propose une nouvelle théorie permettant d'expliquer en termes biologiques le sentiment de soi. Comment le cerveau engendre t-il les structures mentales qui nous donnent à voir des images ? Comment crée t-il ce sentiment de nous-mêmes dont nous faisons l'expérience lorsque nous pensons quelque chose, percevons quelque chose, imaginons quelque chose ? Non, la conscience de soi ne tombe pas du ciel. Oui, elle peut s'expliquer, presque se montrer, et nous pouvons la connaître. Nous savons enfin ce que nous sommes et pourquoi. Une révolution.« Ce livre nous dévoile pour la première fois les fondements neurobiologiques du Soi. » Jean-Pierre Changeux « Antonio Damasio est probablement l'un des plus brillants neurologues au monde. » David Hubel, prix Nobel« Voici un livre sans équivalent » Jerome Kagan« Ce livre est une merveille qui mêle avec brio intuition poétique et précision dans l'analyse. » Peter BrookAntonio R. Damasio dirige le département de neurologie de l'Université de l'Iowa et enseigne à l'Institut Salk d'études biologiques de La Jolla, aux États-Unis. Il est l'auteur de L'Erreur de Descartes, qui a connu un très grand succès et a été traduit en dix-huit langues.

Corps, émotions, conscience

Le Sentiment même de soi

Inwiefern hat der Frühaufklärer Spinoza mit seinen Ansätzen zur Ethik, Religion und Spiritualität die neuesten Erkenntnisse der Neurobiologie vorgedacht? Wie kommt es, dass selbst rationale Entscheidungen nicht nur von unseren Gefühlen, sondern auch von körperlichen Empfindungen gesteuert werden? Welche Rolle spielen die "somatischen Marker" als körperliche Schaltstellen zwischen Gefühl und Verstand? Und: Was haben Sozialverhalten und Ethik mit der Neurobiologie zu tun? Im Rückgriff auf Spinoza gelingt Antonio R. Damasio eine faszinierende Zusammenschau von Neurobiologie und Philosophie, mittels derer er neueste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse nicht nur mit der Dialektik von Denken, Fühlen und körperlichen Empfindungen, sondern auch mit Spiritualität in Verbindung bringt. Der Spinoza-Effekt ist zudem ein Appell an uns, unseren emotionalen Instinkten und körperlichen Signalen auch in scheinbar vom Verstand gesteuerten Situationen zu vertrauen.

Wie Gefühle unser Leben bestimmen

Der Spinoza-Effekt

Professor of Neurology Antonio R Damasio

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