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1 online resource |
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I THE LOOKING-GLASS; CHAPTER ONE The origins of Urizen; CHAPTER TWO Urizen and the left hemisphere; CHAPTER THREE The myth of Genesis; CHAPTER FOUR The marriage of heaven and hell; PART II DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE; CHAPTER FIVE The God of reason; CHAPTER SIX Urizenic religion and Urizenic reason: R1 and R2; CHAPTER SEVEN The left hemisphere agenda; CHAPTER EIGHT Twilight of the psychopaths; CHAPTER NINE More than man: the dragon Urizen; CHAPTER TEN The Selfhood & the fires of Los; CONCLUSION Sweet science reigns |
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APPENDIX The symbolism of left and right in Blake's workNOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX |
| Summary |
The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries, such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence of thes |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Blake, William, 1757-1827. Book of Urizen.
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959- -- Health
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 fast |
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Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959- fast |
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Book of Urizen (Blake, William) fast |
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Metaphysics.
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Creation.
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God.
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Myth.
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First philosophy.
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metaphysics.
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creating (artistic activity)
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myths.
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creation (doctrinal concept)
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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First philosophy
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Creation
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God
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Health
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Metaphysics
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Myth
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1782410600 |
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9781782410607 |
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