Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind by Guy Claxton

Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind by Guy Claxton

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

An exploration of the slower ways of knowing that we have unlearned or ignored, but that are crucial to our complete mental development. Claxton argues that the human brain-mind is capable of degrees of subtlety and wisdom for solving complicated personal emotional predicaments, which defy everyday rationality and cleverness.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind by Guy Claxton

The human brain will do a number of unusual and interesting things if given time. It will learn patterns of a degree of subtlety which normal, busy consciousness cannot even see, let alone master, and make sense out of ill-defined situations which leave everyday rationality flummoxed. It will get to the bottom of personal, emotional issues more successfully than the questioning intellect. It will detect and respond to meaning, in poetry for example, that cannot be articulated. This is Guy Claxton's viewpoint, and in this work he explores the slower ways of knowing and explains how they could be used more effectively.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9781857024517
ISBN 10 1857024516
Title Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind
Author Guy Claxton
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1997-05-15
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
Note Unavailable