States of Mind - ANTHOLOGY

A lively collection of literature science and art delving into the mysteries of human consciousness with a new introduction by Mark Haddon published to coincide with a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection in 2016 The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe Understanding the nature of consciousness continues to challenge even our leading scientists and psychologists. Yet we all experience some form of consciousness and make daily journeys between different conscious states as we sleep and wake. Through the eyes of writers artists scientists and philoso-phers States of Mind explores the meaning of consciousness and in particular the nature of interrupted or liminal conscious experiences such as somnambulism synaesthesia and disorders of memory. These diverse - even conflicting - perspectives pose fundamental questions about what it means to be alive aware and human. This engaging collection draws on five centuries of thinking probing science and the soul language and memory being and not being. It includes works by Jane Austen Samuel Taylor Coleridge Arthur Conan Doyle Francis Crick Rene Descartes Emily Dickinson H L Gold Franz Kafka H P Lovecraft Marcel Proust Mary Shelley Henry David Thoreau Alan Turing H G Wells and Emile Zola. WELLCOME COLLECTION Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome it connects science medicine life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions events and books explore a diverse range of subjects including consciousness forensic medicine emotions ology identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive funding over 14000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. wellcomecollection.org

TITLE: States of Mind

AUTHOR: ANTHOLOGY

SKU: 9781781256558

PUBLISHER: Profile Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 04/02/2016

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 272

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 127 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm

WEIGHT: 265 gr