Exit Cogito 
Jonathan Rée
- Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio’s two previous books, Descartes’s Error and The Feeling of What Happens, appealed not only to scientists. The citations, prizes and honours, not to mention the author’s photograph, reveal that Damasio, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, is also a person of deep sensitivity and broad cosmopolitan culture. Readers in search of a Renaissance man need look no further.
Subscribers to the print edition can log in to view the entire article. For information about subscribing to the London Review of Books click here. This article is available for purchase online. Buy this article.
Jonathan Rée is a member of the philosopher’s group of the British Humanist Association. He co-edited The Kierkegaard Reader.
Other articles by this contributor:
Strenuous Unbelief · Richard Rorty
Tummy-Talkers · Ventriloquists
print layout
tell a friend