With rarely matched clarity as well as deep The Matter with Things builds on thatįoundation, confirming the author's status as a leading contemporary polymath. It doesn't so much undermine common understandings of rationality as reframe them. The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist's earlier tour de force, ranks as a game-changer. Louis Sass, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University author of Madness and Modernism and of The Paradoxes of Delusion Ī magnificent achievement. This is a book of surpassing, even world-historical ambition, and-still more rare-one that delivers McGilchrist's appreciation of ambiguity and paradox only enhances the clarity and McGilchrist is the most generous and talented of writers: his fluid account,īrilliantly and beautifully argued-and meticulously researched-brings us along with him, step by step, until we too can discern In the universe, and the nature of the sacred. Then he climbs his three-fold cord to a place from which oneĬan survey the ultimate mysteries-the relationship of mind to matter, the concept of life, the contested role of purpose Of brain function, cognition, and the structure of knowledge. The author first offers intertwined analyses
Of awe and admiration: the starry heavens above as well as the mental life within. Iain McGilchrist's book considers both great sources Gives us the potential both to understand and to misunderstand the world. Its author shows not just how our divided mind and brain makes us human, but how this In its pages, neuropsychology comes into conversation Of a philosopher, and the no nonsense grounding of a true scientist. Matter with Things is a work of remarkable inspiration and erudition, written with the soul and subtlety of a poet, the precision
Professor Charles Foster, Oxford University, author of Being a Human and Being a Beast ' _ Read this now to know what sort of creature you are and what sort of place you inhabit._ He is impeccably rigorous, fearlessly honest, and compellingly readable. Vast as the subject - which is everything - demands. No one else could have written this book. We urgently need to attune our ears to this music - to re-enchant the world and ourselves,Īnd to confound those who say that there is only noise. For McGilchrist the universe is a constantly evolving symphony To believe that the world is alive with wonder and mystery. Of the nature of reality, and a devastating repudiation of the strident, banal orthodoxy that says it is childish and disreputable
It's very simple: this is one of the most important books ever published.
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