The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World - Iain McGilchrist

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World - Iain McGilchrist (2009)

INTRODUCTION

Part I. THE DIVIDED BRAIN

Chapter 1. ASYMMETRY AND THE BRAIN

Chapter 2. WHAT DO THE TWO HEMISPHERES ‘DO’?

Chapter 3. LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND MUSIC

Chapter 4. THE NATURE OF THE TWO WORLDS

Chapter 5. THE PRIMACY OF THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE

Chapter 6. THE TRIUMPH OF THE LEFT HEMISPHERE

Part II. HOW THE BRAIN HAS SHAPED OUR WORLD

Chapter 7. IMITATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE

Chapter 8. THE ANCIENT WORLD

Chapter 9. THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION

Chapter 10. THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Chapter 11. ROMANTICISM AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Chapter 12. THE MODERN AND POST-MODERN WORLDS

CONCLUSION

NOTES

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