The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

by Antonio Damasio

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Damasio extends his life's work on the biology of emotion to argue that feelings, not reason, are the foundation of culture itself. From the simplest organisms to the highest art, homeostasis drives everything.

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Clear cites Antonio Damasio's The Strange Order of Things for the same foundational claim that emotions precede and shape decisions. Damasio's research on patients with damaged emotional centres of the brain — who can list reasons to act but cannot — appears in the chapter on craving.

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