The Feeling Of What Happens
Antonio Damasio
  • Published: 3 November 2000
  • ISBN: 9780099288763
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99
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The Feeling Of What Happens

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Neurophysiology expert, Professor Antonio Damasio, shows how consciousness develops out of mental and physical feeling in this poetic and illuminating book.

‘The Feeling of What Happens will change your experience of yourself’ New York Times

Where do our emotions come from? What does it mean to be conscious?

At its core, human consciousness is awareness of the feeling, experiencing self, the 'very thought of' oneself.
Brilliantly wide-ranging in his scope, leading expert on the neurophysiology of emotions Antonio Damasio illustrates his thesis with fascinating and illuminating neurological case studies that are both stimulating and provocative.
  • Published: 3 November 2000
  • ISBN: 9780099288763
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Antonio Damasio

Born in Portugal, Antonio Damasio became Van Allen Distinguished Professor and head of the department of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He is the author of Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain and The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness.

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Praise for The Feeling Of What Happens

The life-changing read of the year... The book is crammed with tiny gems of information with which to reassess how you look at the world and think about yourself

Katie Mitchell, Guardian

A tour de force...a monumental book...a gem of a work

Anthony Clare, Sunday Times

Compelling...a story told with clarity and pace, unencumbered by unnecessary technical jargon and illustrated with insightful clinical anecdotes

The Times

A fascinating and suggestive book

Literary Review

Both Descartes' Error and The Feeling of What Happens are essential reading. They are groundbreaking classics of psychology and neuroscience. These are the books to buy, keep and ponder upon. Do so, and you will be ahead of the ruck by at least a decade

Journal Of The Royal Society of Medicine
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