The Metamorphoses of the Brain - Neurologisation and Its Discontents

by Jan de Vos

Book Overview

What are we exactly, when we are said to be our brain? This question leads Jan De Vos to examine the different metamorphoses of the brain: the educated brain, the material brain, the iconographic brain, the sexual brain, the celebrated brain and, finally, the political brain. This first, protracted and sustained argument on neurologisation, which lays bare its lineage with psychologisation, should be taken seriously by psychologists, educationalists,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137505567
• ISBN13: 9781137505569
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"