PROUST AND NEUROSCIENCE BY AN EXPERT.

PROUST AND NEUROSCIENCE BY AN EXPERT. I posted earlier on Proust and Happiness Psychology. This was a layman’s reaction to reading STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS by Daniel Gilbert. In reading about Milton Friedman just now I came across the fact that Jonah Lehrer will be publishing a book entitled PROUST WAS A NEUROSCIENTIST later this year. Jonah Lehrer has a blog called The Frontal Cortex which discusses Proust and neuroscience. He says, “I actually argue that Proust anticipated some fundamental discoveries in modern neuroscience. But he wasn’t the only artist with prophetic powers. I also argue that Walt Whitman, George Eliot, August Escoffier, Paul Cezanne, Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf (basically a Who’s Who of modernism) also anticipated the shiny new facts of neuroscience.” You can imagine how much I am looking forward to this book.