Proust Was a Neuroscientist

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Jonah Lehrer. Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Contents

Prelude

Walt Whitman

Emerson

The Ghostly Limb

The Anatomy of Emotion

The Body Electric

George Eliot

Social Physics

Love and Mystery

The Brand-New Mind

The Literary Genome

The Blessing of Chaos

Auguste Escoffier

The Secret of Deliciousness

The Smell of an Idea

A Sense of Subjectivity

Marcel Proust

Intuitions

The Lie of Yesterday

Sentimental Proteins

Paul Cézanne

The Invention of the Photograph

The Limits of Light

Cézanne and Zola

The Blank Canvas

Igor Stravinsky

The Birth of Dissonance

Waves of Noise

The Tension of Emotion

Stravinsky the Hipster

Plato’s Mistake

Gertrude Stein

Picasso’s Portrait

The James Brothers

Noam Chomsky

The Meaning of Meaninglessness

Virginia Woolf

The Split Minds of Modernism

Emergence

Lily

Coda

Acknowledgments

Notes. 1. Walt Whitman: The Substance of Feeling

2. George Eliot: The Biology of Freedom

3. Auguste Escoffier: The Essence of Taste

4. Marcel Proust: The Method of Memory

5. Paul Cézanne: The Process of Sight

6. Igor Stravinsky: The Source of Music

7. Gertrude Stein: The Structure of Language

8. Virginia Woolf: The Emergent Self

Coda

Bibliography

Index

Also by Jonah Lehrer

Copyright

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For Sarah and Ariella

The Substance of Feeling

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I undo the clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and blood,

Back on his pillow the soldier bends with curv’d neck and side-falling head,

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