The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

 Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other life-forms; and that inherent in the very chemistry of life is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life. The Strange Order of Things offers us a new way of understanding the world an

the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, 2011 and the Sorbonne Université Paris Descartes, 2015.     Damasio has discussed his research and ideas in several books, among them Descartes’ Error, The Feeling ofWhat Happens, Looking for Spinoza and Self Comes to Mind, which are translated and taught in universities worldwide.     (For more information go to the Brain and Creativity Institute website at usc/bci/). He is the author of numerous scientific articles and has been named “Highly Cited Researcher” by the Institute for Scientific Information, and is regarded as one of the most eminent psychologists of the modern era.     Damasio is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of t

He has received numerous prizes, among them the Grawemeyer Award 2014 and the Honda Prize 2010, the Asturias Prize in Science and Technology 2005, and the Nonino 2003, Signoret 2004 and Pessoa 1992 Prizes.     He holds Honorary Doctorates from several leading Universities, some shared with his wife Hanna, e.g. His work on the role of affect in decision-making has made a major impact in neuroscience,