The Ceiling Outside

The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind

The Ceiling Outside
Noga Arikha
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h214 x 134mm - 304pg
28 Apr 2022 UK
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9781529385472
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As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our sense of self. Vanessa wakes from a coma having forgotten ten years of her life. Toussaint, is haunted by voices. Thomas no longer knows how to answer questions and Claire, a retired teacher loses the use of her right hand because of an inexplicable pain. Noga Arikha began studying these patients and their confounding symptoms in order to explore how our physical experiences inform our identities. Soon after she began her work, the question took on unexpected urgency, as Arikha' s own mother began to show signs of Alzheimer' s disease. Weaving together stories of her subjects' troubles and her mother' s decline, Arikha searches for some meaning in the science she has set out to study. She explores how the self studies itself and how it loses itself, delving into the scientific research that can help us understand how deeply interconnected are our minds and bodies. The result is an unforgettable journey across the ever-shifting boundaries between ourselves and each other.
Noga Arikha is that rare author whose deep knowledge of philosophy, science, and the arts allows her to move deftly from the quandaries of medical diagnosis and the scientific ideas that inform them to the intimate narratives of people afflicted with illnesses that threaten the coherence of that mysterious thing we call "a self. " Astute, compassionate, and brilliant, The Ceiling Outside is finally an adventure story in the bewildering drama of being -- Siri Hustvedt, author of Memories of the Future Noga Arikha is a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist. Trust her to guide you through a study of suffering and healing that will leave you humanly richer and, wonder of wonders, at peace with yourself -- Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes' Error With grace, rigour and imagination, Arikha brings together the languages of mind, brain, and embodied human experience to give us a book that fascinates on every page -- Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors and Everyday Madness
Noga Arikha is a philosopher, historian of ideas and science humanist. She is an Associate Fellow of the Warburg Institute, Research Associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, and member of the SPHERE Research Unit. Her first book, Passions and Tempers, was a New York Times Review Editor' s Choice and one of the Washington Post Best Non-Fiction Books. Her second, co-authored with her husband Marcello Simonetta, was Napoleon and the Rebel.
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ISBN-13: 9781529385472
Published: 28 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Basic Books
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 214mm
Width: 134mm
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 304

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