The River of Consciousness
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ISBN: 9780385352567
author:
Oliver Sacks
publishing house: Knopf
publication date: 2017
-10
binding: Hardcover
price: USD 27.00
number of pages: 256
Oliver Sacks
overview
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. (From Amazon)
contents
Foreword
Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers
Speed
Sentience: The Mental Lives of Plants and Worms
The Other Road: Freud as Neurologist
The Fallibility of Memory
Mishearings
The Creative Self
A General Feeling of Disorder
The River of Consciousness
Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science
Bibliography
Index
