Cajal Beyond the Brain: Don Santiago Contemplates the Mind and Its Education

ISBN-13: 9781505674798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 282 str.

Santiago Ramon Y. Cajal; Lazaros C. Triarhou

Opis

This compilation brings together 20 essays of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934), the neuroscientist par excellence and 1906 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, on topics beyond neuroanatomy, most appearing in English for the first time. The annotated collection makes available in one handy volume Cajal's ideas on psychology, art and education, still current and still relevant, derived from his books La Psicologia de los Artistas, Charlas de Cafe, El Mundo Visto a los Ochenta Anos, Pensamientos Pedagogicos and Escritos Ineditos. An acute observer of the intellectual and social scene of the avant-garde, Cajal emerged in 20th-century Spain in a further role as a philosopher and educator. The contents bespeak Cajal's inquiry into the varieties of human experience and shed new light on the breadth of his genius, imagination and passion, helping us to rethink what we thought we already understood about Don Santiago's own mind."