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Book SynopsisCognitive neuroscience, once a specialised area of psychology and biology, has enjoyed increased worldwide legitimacy in the last thirty years not only in psychiatry and mental health, but also in such fields as education, economics, marketing, and law. How can this surge in popularity be explained?
Trade Review"Cognitive science is becoming 'the barometer of how we conduct our lives.' Gradually, neuronal man would take the place of social man ... Alain Ehrenberg has analyzed this cognitivist revolution from a sociologist's perspective in La Mécanique des passions." France Culture
"Pursuing his study of forms of contemporary individualism, in La Mécanique des passions the sociologist Alain Ehrenberg looks at the cognitive neurosciences, which have become the 'barometer' of modernity, to determine what they modify in individual or social behaviors, and what image of the human being they produce." Libération
"Ehrenberg further anchors his work on contemporary self-determination and individualism." Les Échos
