{"product_id":"the-age-of-insight-the-quest-to-understand-the-unconscious-in-art-mind-and-brain-from-vienna-1900-to-the-present-9781400068715","title":"The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Age of Insight: Vienna 1900's Revolution in Art, Mind, and Brain\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nA brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Insight\u003c\/i\u003e takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind--our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions--and how mind and brain relate to art.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eVienna 1900: The Cultural Capital of Europe\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nAt the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists met in glittering salons, where they freely exchanged ideas that led to revolutionary breakthroughs in psychology, brain science, literature, and art. Kandel takes us into the world of Vienna to trace, in rich and rewarding detail, the ideas and advances made then, and their enduring influence today.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Vienna School of Medicine and Its Influence\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nThe Vienna School of Medicine led the way with its realization that truth lies hidden beneath the surface. That principle infused Viennese culture and strongly influenced the other pioneers of Vienna 1900. Sigmund Freud shocked the world with his insights into how our everyday unconscious aggressive and erotic desires are repressed and disguised in symbols, dreams, and behavior. Arthur Schnitzler revealed women's unconscious sexuality in his novels through his innovative use of the interior monologue. Gustav Klimt, Oscar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele created startlingly evocative and honest portraits that expressed unconscious lust, desire, anxiety, and the fear of death.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBridging Art History and Neuroscience\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nKandel tells the story of how these pioneers--Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele--inspired by the Vienna School of Medicine, in turn influenced the founders of the Vienna School of Art History to ask pivotal questions such as What does the viewer bring to a work of art? How does the beholder respond to it? These questions prompted new and ongoing discoveries in psychology and brain biology, leading to revelations about how we see and perceive, how we think and feel, and how we respond to and create works of art.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA Foundation for Neuroscience and the Humanities\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nKandel, one of the leading scientific thinkers of our time, places these five innovators in the context of today's cutting-edge science and gives us a new understanding of the modernist art of Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele, as well as the school of thought of Freud and Schnitzler. Reinvigorating the intellectual enquiry that began in Vienna 1900, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Insight\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully written, superbly researched, and beautifully illustrated book that also provides a foundation for future work in neuroscience and the humanities. It is an extraordinary book from an international leader in neuroscience and intellectual history.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eEric R. Kandel\u003c\/b\u003e is University Professor and Kavli Professor at Columbia University and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Kandel is founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on memory storage in the brain. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Memory, \u003c\/i\u003ea memoir that won a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award, and co-author of \u003ci\u003ePrinciples of Neural Science, \u003c\/i\u003ethe standard textbook in the field. He was born in Vienna and lives in New York with his wife, Denise.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680864801042,"sku":"9781400068715","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_036095d9-fe99-4f6a-b249-4131ede348c1.jpg?v=1733944383","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-age-of-insight-the-quest-to-understand-the-unconscious-in-art-mind-and-brain-from-vienna-1900-to-the-present-9781400068715","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}