Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject

by David Bates

Book Overview

With the rise of cognitive science and the revolution in neuroscience, it is now commonplace to assume that the study of a human person-a thinking, feeling, acting subject-is ultimately the study of the human brain. In both Europe and the United States, massive state-funded research is focused on mapping the brain in all its remarkable complexity. The metaphors employed are largely technological: A wiring diagram of synaptic connectivity will lead...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823266133
• ISBN13: 9780823266135
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"