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

Arikha, Noga

ISBN 10: 1541600878 / ISBN 13: 9781541600874

Published by Basic Books, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1541600878
• ISBN 13: 9781541600874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 17.6 ounces

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Synopsis

As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the  unbreakable links  between  our bodies and our sense of self.  
 
A diabetic woman awakens from a coma having forgotten the last ten years of her life. A Haitian immigrant has nightmares that begin bleeding into his waking hours. A retired teacher loses the use of her right hand due to pain of no known origin. 
 
Noga Arikha began studying these patients and their confounding symptoms in order to explore how our physical experiences inform our identities. Soon after she initiated her work, the question took on unexpected urgency, as Arikha’s own mother began to show signs of Alzheimer’s disease. 
 
Weaving together stories of her subjects’ troubles and her mother’s decline, Arikha searches for some meaning in the science she has set out to study. The result is an unforgettable journey across the ever-shifting boundaries between ourselves and each other. 

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.