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Neuromatic
John Lardas Modern
其他書名
Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2021-09-29
主題
History / United States / 20th Century
Medical / Neuroscience
Religion / General
Religion / Reference
Religion / Psychology of Religion
Science / History
Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
ISBN
022679962X
9780226799629
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ad46EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology’s pivotal role in religious history.
In
Neuromatic
, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself.
Neuromatic
is a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth century to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion.
What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the religion it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. In foregrounding the myths, ritual schemes, and cosmic concerns that have accompanied idealizations of neural networks and inquiries into their structure,
Neuromatic
takes the reader on a dazzling and disturbing ride through the history of our strange subservience to the brain.