Bates / Bassiri Plasticity and Pathology

On the Formation of the Neural Subject
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8232-6616-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Berkeley Forum in the Humanities

This collection of essays explores the historical and theoretical dimensions of the contemporary neural subject. With a multidisciplinary perspective, the volume focuses attention on the important, but problematic notion of plasticity as a way of rethinking the relationship between human experience and both pathological and normal states of the nervous system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bates, David

Bassiri, Nima

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Bates David:
David Bates is Professor and Chair in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political.Bassiri Nima:
Nima Bassiri is Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Harper- Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. His research on the history of neuroscience has been published in journals such as Critical Inquiry and Journal of the History of Ideas.