The Age of Insight

Advance praise for The Age of Insight <br> Eric Kandel has succeeded in a brilliant synthesis that would have delighted and fascinated Freud: Using Viennese culture of the twentieth century as a lens, he examines the intersections of psychology, neuroscience, and art. The Age of Insight is a tour-de-force that sets the stage for a twenty-first-century understanding of the human mind in all its richness and diversity. <br>--Oliver Sacks, author of The Mind's Eye and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat <br> In a polymathic performance, a Nobel laureate weaves together the theories and practices of neuroscience, art and psychology to show how our creative brains perceive and engage art--and are consequently moved by it. . . . A transformative work that joins the hands of Art and Science and makes them acknowledge their close kinship. <br> --Kirkus Reviews (STARRED) <br> A fascinating synthesis of art, history, and science that is also accessible to the general reader. A distinctive and important title that is also a pleasure to read <br>-- Library Journal (STARRED) <br> Engrossing ... Nobel-winning neuroscientist Kandel excavates the hidden workings of the creative mind. Kandel writes perceptively about a range of topics, from art history--the book's color reproductions alone make it a great browse--to dyslexia. ... Kandel captures the reader's imagination with intriguing historical syntheses and fascinating scientific insights into how we see--and feel--the world. <br>-- Publisher's Weekly<br> <br> A fascinating meditation on the interplay among art, psychology and brain science. The author, who fled Vienna as a child, has remained captivated by Austrian artists Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, each of whom was profoundly influenced by Sigmund Freud and by the emerging scientific approach to medicine in their day ... [calls] for a new, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the mind, one that combines the humanities with.