by Anna Faherty · Wellcome Collection · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781781256558
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«States of Mind: Experiences at the Edge of Consciousness» is the anthology on consciousness edited by Anna Faherty, published by Wellcome Collection in paperback (272 pages, in English).
It brings together more than a hundred pieces of literature, science, philosophy and art exploring altered or liminal states of consciousness, such as sleepwalking, synaesthesia, nightmares, amnesia or the sensation of being buried alive. It includes texts by Jane Austen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, Alan Turing and H. P. Lovecraft, among others, with an introduction by Mark Haddon. The materials span five centuries and combine prose, poetry, real testimonies and visual interpretations.
The 2016 edition is part of the Wellcome Collection, an entity linked to the London museum of the same name. It includes 30 illustrations.
For readers interested in popular philosophy, psychology and the connections between science, literature and art around the human mind.
