Jourdain Robert - Music The Brain And Ecstasy How Music Captures Our Imagination - Paperback Art Treatments & Subjects Barcode: 4250444190362

Barcode: 4250444190362

Author(s): Burness Tad

Artist: Leprous

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With Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra eminent Strauss scholar Richard L

Jourdain Robert - Music The Brain And Ecstasy How Music Captures Our Imagination - Paperback Art Treatments & Subjects Barcode: 4250444190362Binding: Paperback Description: What makes a distant oboe's wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically interweaving discoveries from science psychology music theory paleontology and philosophy Robert Jourdian brilliantly examines why music speaks to us in ways that words cannot and