The river of consciousness /

The river of consciousness /

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Author / Creator:	Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. ©2017
Description:	x, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Consciousness. Neuropsychology. Creative ability. Consciousness. Creative ability. Neuropsychology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11436630

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ISBN:	9780385352567 0385352565 9780385352574
Notes:	"A Borzoi book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.
Summary:	"Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neurological conditions at the far borderlands of human experience. But his grasp of science was not restricted to neuroscience or medicine; he was fascinated by the issues, ideas, and questions of all the sciences. That wide-ranging expertise and passion informs the perspective of this book, in which he interrogates the nature not only of human experience but of all life. In The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes--above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions they explored--the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness--lie at the heart of science and of this book. The River of Consciousness demonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human."--Dust jacket flap.
Other form:	Online version: Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015. River of consciousness. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017 9780385352574

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Summary:	From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. <br> <br> Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories ( Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars ) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and experiences that shaped him ( Uncle Tungsten, On the Move, Gratitude ). Sacks, an Oxford-educated polymath, had a deep familiarity not only with literature and medicine but with botany, animal anatomy, chemistry, the history of science, philosophy, and psychology. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.
Item Description:	"A Borzoi book."
Physical Description:	x, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.
ISBN:	9780385352567 0385352565 9780385352574