The
God of the Left Hemisphere
Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation
Tweedy, Roderick.
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text
Electronic books.
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London
Karnac Books
2013
monographic
eng
1 online resource (353 p.)
The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries, such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence of thes.
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I THE LOOKING-GLASS; CHAPTER ONE The origins of Urizen; CHAPTER TWO Urizen and the left hemisphere; CHAPTER THREE The myth of Genesis; CHAPTER FOUR The marriage of heaven and hell; PART II DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE; CHAPTER FIVE The God of reason; CHAPTER SIX Urizenic religion and Urizenic reason: R1 and R2; CHAPTER SEVEN The left hemisphere agenda; CHAPTER EIGHT Twilight of the psychopaths; CHAPTER NINE More than man: the dragon Urizen; CHAPTER TEN The Selfhood & the fires of Los; CONCLUSION Sweet science reigns.
APPENDIX The symbolism of left and right in Blake's workNOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.
Cerebrovascular disease
Patients
United States
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959-
Health
Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959-
Blake, William
1757-1827
Blake, William
1757-1827
Criticism and interpretation
Taylor, Jill Bolte
1959-
Health
Metaphysics
Creation
God
Myth
SCIENCE / Cognitive Science
QP405
612.8233
God of the Left Hemisphere : Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation
Tweedy, Roderick
London : Karnac Books, c2013
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