The Feeling of What Happens - Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness (Paperback, New Ed)

There have been many ambitious and important books on the problem of c onsciousness in the past few years. None has quite the philosophical s ophistication and neurophysiological knowledge of this one. One of the world's leading experts on the neurophysiology of emotion, professor Damasio shows how our consciousness developed out of the development o f emotion brilliantly wide ranging, with fascinating case-studies, the book presents a humane and subtle view of the facility that makes us most profoundly human.