Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences

by Robert Samuels

Book Overview

This book argues that neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral economics often function as a political ideology masquerading as a new science. In looking at works by Antonio Damasio, Steven Pinker, Richard Thaler, Cas Sunstein, and John Tooby, Robert Samuels undertakes a close reading of the new brain sciences, and by turning to the works of Freud and Lacan, offers a counter-discourse to these new emerging sciences. He argues that an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319718908
• ISBN13: 9783319718903
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"