The River of Consciousness
Collection of ten essays by Oliver Sacks
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The River of Consciousness is a collection of ten essays by the writer, naturalist, and neurologist Oliver Sacks.[1] Some of the essays are dedicated to specific figures such as Darwin, Freud, and William James.
Knopf (US)
First edition (US) | |
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
|---|---|
| Published | October 2017 |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan (UK) Knopf (US) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 237 |
| ISBN | 978-0-804-17100-7 |
Synopsis
The River of Consciousness compiles the following essays:
- Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers
- Speed
- Sentience: The Mental Lives of Plants and Worms
- The Other Road: Freud as a Neurologist
- The Fallibility of Memory
- Mishearings
- The Creative Self
- A General Feeling of Disorder
- The River of Consciousness
- Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science
Reception
The Chicago Tribune reviewed The River of Consciousness, Praising Sacks' "ability to braid wide reading".[2] In a review for the Wall Street Journal Laura J. Snyder notes that the volume "reminds us, in losing Sacks we lost a gifted and generous storyteller.”[3] In a review published by The Guardian the physician Gavin Francis writes: For those thousands of correspondents, The River of Consciousness will feel like a reprieve – we get to spend time again with Sacks the botanist, the historian of science, the marine biologist and, of course, the neurologist. [4]
