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100 1 _aTweedy, Roderick.
245 1 4 _aThe God of the Left Hemisphere
_h[electronic resource] :
_bBlake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation.
260 _aLondon :
_bKarnac Books,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (353 p.)
505 0 _aCOVER; 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.
505 8 _aAPPENDIX The symbolism of left and right in Blake's workNOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.
520 _aThe 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 4 _aCerebrovascular disease
_xPatients
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aMind-Body Relations, Metaphysical.
650 4 _aTaylor, Jill Bolte, 1959-
_xHealth.
650 4 _aTaylor, Jill Bolte, 1959-
600 1 0 _aBlake, William,
_d1757-1827.
_tBook of Urizen.
600 1 0 _aBlake, William,
_d1757-1827
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 0 _aTaylor, Jill Bolte,
_d1959-
_xHealth.
650 0 _aMetaphysics.
650 0 _aCreation.
650 0 _aGod.
650 0 _aMyth.
650 7 _aSCIENCE / Cognitive Science
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
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_tGod of the Left Hemisphere : Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation
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