Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (Paperback)

from Alex1952

This is a well written book and at times almost lyrical (especially the first chapters on Spinoza). Damasio not only explains well the neuroscience of the brain but also the philosophy of Spinoza. The part about neuroscience comes from Damasio's own work and it has to do with how feelings and emo...

from grid

Well written, really insightful.

from MarkBeronte

Joy, sorrow, jealousy, and awe-these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza devoted much of his life's work examining how these emotions supported human survival, yet hundreds of years later the biological roots of what we feel rem...

from pansociety

George Santayana described Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677), the renowned Dutch philosopher and proponent of Pantheism, as "one of those great men whose eminence grows more obvious with the lapse of years. Like a mountain obscured at first by it foothills, he rises as he recedes." So it is that Spino...

from mbmackay

Supposedly about the biological basis of feelings & emotions - but lost me. Dreadful. Read Aug 2006