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| Author | Jonah Leher |
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Publication date | 2007 |
| ISBN | 9780547085906 |
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is a non-fiction book written by Jonah Lehrer, first published in 2007. In it, Lehrer argues that many 20th and 21st-century discoveries of neuroscience are actually re-discoveries of insights made earlier by various artists, including Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Paul Cézanne, Igor Stravinsky, and, as alluded to in the title, Marcel Proust. [1]
Lehrer became embroiled in controversy following the publication of his third book, Imagine: How Creativity Works (2012), and his work was subject to charges of plagiarism and fabrication. [2] [3] Though both Imagine and one of his other books, How We Decide , were pulled from publication, Proust Was a Neuroscientist was found by his publisher to be without significant problems and would remain in print.
