In an age that values science as the ultimate tool for discovery, could art hold the key to deeper understanding? Jonah Lehrer thinks so.
In Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Lehrer explores how artists like Proust, Cézanne, and Gertrude Stein uncovered essential truths about the mind long before science caught up. Through memory, perception, and even taste, these creators delved into human nature in ways neuroscience is only now validating.
As Lehrer journeys through the lives and insights of poets, painters, chefs, and composers, he reveals the cost of reducing knowledge to mere data. Science explains, but art understands.
Blending biography, criticism, and science, Proust Was a Neuroscientist challenges us to see art and science as partners in uncovering the mind’s mysteries.
