The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind

by	Noga Arikha

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Weight	0.4 kg
Dimensions	3 × 14.6 × 21.8 cm
by	Noga Arikha
Format	Hardback
Language	English
Pages	304
Publisher	John Murray Press
Year Published	2022-4-28
Imprint	Basic Books
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	1529385466
About The Author	Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. The author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, she is associate fellow of the Warburg Institute and honorary fellow of the Center for the Politics of Feelings, London, and research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. She is based in Florence, Italy.
	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
Other text	As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our sense of self.