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Musicophilia
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This is an absolutely amazing book on how music impacts our brains, even if it is mostly a bunch of case studies rather than definitive answers. It really gives you a sense of what music can do and shows you how much music is a part of human nature, in whatever way it may be. It is well research and told, with stories that will amaze you, enlighten you, make you laugh, cry, sink into deep...more
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The first two chapters are soo interesting because he talks about actual patients who have medical conditions that relate to music and also other stories about his patients. Then, unless your a doctor, it gets soo boring. He uses so much medical lingo that it was just so boring.
I had the good fortune to hear him promote this book. He's a wonderful anecdotalist, and a physician in the classical sense, wonderfully wry about the state of being human. The book explores his theory that we are a musical species. Written in his usual clearly observational style with insights and gentle humor, its the kind of book you can dip into or savour from cover to cover, and no doubt...more
I think that the relationship between music and language is one of the most fascinating questions that confronts modern philosophical accounts of language, which tend to assume the primacy of the concept (this is true, I think in "analytic" philosophy, of course, but quite often in continental philosophy also. The mixture of science, case study and personal essay in this book manages to raise a...more
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