The god of the left hemisphere : Blake, Bolte Taylor, and the myth of creation / by Roderick Tweedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tweedy, Roderick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blake, William, 1757-1827. Book of Urizen.

Blake, William.

Blake, William, 1757-1827--Criticism and interpretation.

Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959---Health.

Taylor, Jill Bolte.

Creation.

God.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries, such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence of these rationalising, law-making, and 'limiting' activities within the human brain has been recorded in the earliest Creation texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, Plato's Timaeus, and the Norse sagas. Blake's prescient insight into the nature and origins of this dominant force within the brain allows him to radically reinterpret the psychological basis of the entity usually referred to in these texts as 'God'. The book draws in particular on the work of Bolte Taylor, whose study in this area is having a profound impact on how we understand mental activity and processes.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I THE LOOKING-GLASS; CHAPTER ONE The origins of Urizen; CHAPTER TWO Urizen and the left hemisphere; CHAPTER THREE The myth of Genesis; CHAPTER FOUR The marriage of heaven and hell; PART II DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE; CHAPTER FIVE The God of reason; CHAPTER SIX Urizenic religion and Urizenic reason: R1 and R2; CHAPTER SEVEN The left hemisphere agenda; CHAPTER EIGHT Twilight of the psychopaths; CHAPTER NINE More than man: the dragon Urizen; CHAPTER TEN The Selfhood & the fires of Los; CONCLUSION Sweet science reigns

APPENDIX The symbolism of left and right in Blake's workNOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-92090-3

0-429-90667-6

0-429-48190-X

1-283-90251-6

1-78241-060-0

9780429481901

OCLC:

823723742