The Metamorphoses of the Brain – Neurologisation and its Discontents

• Main Author: De Vos, Jan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Philosophy of mind.; Neuropsychology.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Critical psychology.; Self and Identity.; Critical Psychology.; Philosophy of Mind.

What are we exactly, when we are said to be our brain? This question leads Jan De Vos to examine the different metamorphoses of the brain: the educated brain, the material brain, the iconographic brain, the sexual brain, the celebrated brain and, finally, the political brain. This first book-length...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Education Brain
• Chapter 2. The Material Brain
• Chapter 3. The Iconographic Brain
• Chapter 4. The Sexual Brain
• Chapter 5. The Celebrated Brain
• Chapter 6. The Political Brain. .