Customer Reviews
finding the movement i want to belong to - By: Karen Maclean, 24 Mar 2008 
lehrer's book is a gem; reading it a joyful series of "aha's". trained as a humanist, i have long taken great & guilty pleasure in reading about the brain, its physiology & development, while entertaining a sneaky suspicion that this reading is not so different from perusing "la princesse de clèves" or "the house of mirth".
lehrer connects the dots for me, starting by opening up the possibility that artists - not just the novelists i was thinking of, but painters, composers, poets, you name it - are working on the same topics, with the same legitimacy & epistemological justification & import as scientists.
he may not be the first either artist or scientist to do so, but the comprehensive scope of his book, drawing on so many artists & scientific angles is, in my experience, unique.
his final calll for a "fourth culture" that truly seeks to draw on the investigations & insights of both art & science, respecting different approaches, methodologies & epistemologies is most inspiring. alll i want to know is, where do i sign up? i suspect the first step is to review this book in greater depth, as soon as time permits: till now, just read it!
