Volume 37, Number 18 · November 22, 1990
Neurology and the Soul
By Oliver Sacks
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology
by Frederick C. Bartlett
Cambridge University Press, (out of print)
Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
by Gerald M. Edelman
Basic Books, 400 pp., $32.95
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness
by Gerald M. Edelman
Basic Books, 384 pp., $29.95
The Mystery of the Mind
by Wilder Penfield
Princeton University Press, 123 pp., $8.95 (paper)
The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain
by Israel Rosenfield, Introduction by Oliver Sacks
Basic Books, 240 pp., $9.95 (paper)
La Conscience: Une Biologie du Moi Knopf in 1991
by Israel Rosenfield
Editions Eshel (Paris, 1990); to be published in expanded form by
'A Critique of Artificial Intelligence'
by Israel Rosenfield. in The Enchanted Loom, edited by Pietro Corsi
Oxford University Press, 400 pp., $60.00
Man on his Nature
by Sir Charles Sherrington
Cambridge University Press, (out of print)
The Integrative Action of the Nervous System
by Sir Charles Sherrington
Cambridge University Press, (out of print)
Migraine
by Oliver Sacks
University of California Press, 290 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Awakenings
revised edition, by Oliver Sacks
HarperCollins, 448 pp., $9.95 (paper)
A Leg to Stand On
by Oliver Sacks
HarperCollins, 224 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
HarperCollins, 256 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Seeing Voices
by Oliver Sacks
HarperCollins, 224 pp., $8.95 (paper)
There has always, seemingly, been a split between science and life, between the apparent poverty of scientific formulation and the manifest richness of phenomenal experience. This is the chasm which Goethe refers to in Faust, when he speaks of the grayness of theory as contrasted with the green and golden colors of life:
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