Gerhard Roth

On Humanity

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Gerhard Roth
On Humanity / Über den Menschen
Mankind – from the perspective of a neuroscientist

Hardly any other field of research has undergone developments as turbulent as those within neuroscience. At the same time, the field has become the topic of fierce interdisciplinary debates that predominantly revolve around one single question: Are neuroscientific findings forcing us to revise our established conception of man?


Following in the footsteps of his bestselling work Aus Sicht des Gehirns, Gerhard Roth both comprehensibly and elegantly outlines a...

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Hardly any other field of research has undergone developments as turbulent as those within neuroscience. At the same time, the field has become the topic of fierce interdisciplinary debates that predominantly revolve around one single question: Are neuroscientific findings forcing us to revise our established conception of man?


Following in the footsteps of his bestselling work Aus Sicht des Gehirns, Gerhard Roth both comprehensibly and elegantly outlines a conception of man as an intellectual-social being striving to comprehend the meaning of itself and its environment. Humanity in its complexity, he concludes, cannot be grasped by neuroscience or by the humanities and social sciences alone – and yet it is integrated within the unity of nature.

»The book is primarily driven by the desire to deal with the old yet still unsolved body-mind problem. In doing so, it pleasantly stands out from comparable works by explicitly emphasising the necessity of building bridges between the natural sciences and the humanities ...« Kristina Musholt, Forschung & Lehre
»The book is primarily driven by the desire to deal with the old yet still unsolved body-mind problem. In doing so, it pleasantly stands out from comparable works by explicitly emphasising the necessity of building bridges between the natural sciences and the humanities ...« Kristina Musholt, Forschung & Lehre
2021, 368 pages
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Gerhard Roth (1942 – 2023) was Professor of Behavioural Physiology and Developmental Neurobiology at the Brain Research Institute at the University of Bremen. He received numerous prizes and awards for his work, most recently the Life Achievement Award. Gerhard Roth is considered one of the most important neuroscientists in the German-speaking world, his books regularly became bestsellers.

Gerhard Roth (1942 – 2023) was Professor of Behavioural Physiology and Developmental Neurobiology at the Brain Research Institute at the...

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Freedom, Guilt and Responsibility
Year of Publication: 2008
Michael Pauen, Gerhard RothYear of Publication: 2008

Freedom, Guilt and Responsibility

No scientific debate has been fought out in public with as much vehemence in recent years as the dispute over free will. The traditional concept of »free will«, which is also the basis of...
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From the Brain’s Perspective
Year of Publication: 2003
Gerhard RothYear of Publication: 2003

From the Brain’s Perspective

Gerhard Roth’s project is to use the findings of modern neurobiology and brain research to answer questions that have occupied philosophers, scientists and all thinking people forever: Are humans unique? How is our world of consciousness created? Can we recognise the world as it is, or is our perception a construction of our brain? What should we listen to: reason or emotion? What shapes...
Feeling, Thinking, Acting
Year of Publication: 2001
Gerhard RothYear of Publication: 2001

Feeling, Thinking, Acting

The central question of this book is: Who or what determines human behaviour: the thinking, rational, more or less freely deciding ego, our genes, environmental influences or the unconscious? The question is discussed and answered in detail in the light of recent findings of brain research and psychology. Feeling, Thinking, Acting deals with the relationship between consciousness and the...
The Brain and its Reality
Year of Publication: 1995
Gerhard RothYear of Publication: 1995

The Brain and its Reality

The Brain and its Reality presents the latest findings on the biological, evolutionary-biological and neurobiological foundations of perception and cognitive performance, of consciousness and mind. It discusses how and within what limits consciousness and mind can be made »visible« with today’s neurophysiological and imaging methods. Building on these foundations, a...