Howard Gardner

Creating Minds An Anatomy of Creativity Seen through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Grah

Philippe Brenot

Genius and Madness

Philippe Brenot

Genius and Madness

Patrick Lemoine

The Mental Health of Geniuses Geniuses of good, geniuses of evil: what’s the difference?

For each famous figure, a well-documented profile that challenges our view of them, a clinical diagnosis and, as a bonus, a final percentage of good or evil…

Bernard Lechevalier

Mozart's Brain

In this book, the author uses episodes from Mozart’s life which illustrate a specific aspect of musical perception. He explores the mechanisms of musical memory - how is it mentally possible to memorise a fifteen-minute musical composition for nine voices, in two choirs? Is this ability due to a listening technique? To an emotionally-based one? What mental operations are at work in musical memory, in general? Bernard Lechevalier is a neurologist specialising in neuropsychology, and a professor of neurology and medicine in teaching hospitals.

Bernard Lechevalier

Mozart’s Brain

The author uses some of the most iconic incidents from Mozart’s life as a springboard to explore the mechanisms of musical perception.

Bernard Lechevalier

Mozart’s Brain

Philippe Descola

Natures in Question Collège de France Autumn Colloquium

The most recent thinking on nature in the era of biotechnology and artificial intelligence