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The Metamorphoses of the Brain - Neurologisation and its Discontents

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The Metamorphoses of the Brain - Neurologisation and its Discontents

By Jan de Vos

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About the book

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, protracted and sustained argument on neurologisation, which lays bare its lineage with psychologisation, should be taken seriously by psychologists, educationalists, sociologists, students of cultural studies, p...Show more

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9781137505569

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Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2016

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1

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The Metamorphoses of the Brain - Neurologisation and its Discontents

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Hardcover

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