The Mechanics of Passion: Brain, Behaviour, and Society 9780228004431

Table of contents :
Cover
The MECHANICS of PASSIONS
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: The New Science of Human Behaviour
1 Exemplary Brains: From the Misfortunes of the Practical Subject to the Heroism of Hidden Potential
2 Scientific Method and Individualist Ideals: Converting Passions, from the Scottish Enlightenment to New Individualism
3 The Brain-as-Individual, a Physiology of Autonomy
4 Social Neuroscience, or How the Individual Acts with Others
5 Exercises in Autonomy: Individualist Rituals to Reconstruct One’s Moral Being?
6 Is It My Ideas or My Brain That Is Making Me Sick? Neuroscience and Self-Knowledge
Conclusion: The Brain’s Place From the Neuronal Being to the Total Being
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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