The Master and His Emissary
Author:Iain McGilchrist
Edition:1st Edition
The relationship between the brain’s two hemispheres is explored to understand how different modes of perception shape human thought, culture, and society. It examines how the right hemisphere’s holistic, contextual awareness contrasts with the left hemisphere’s analytical, detail-focused processing, arguing that an imbalance between them has influenced the development of Western civilization and modern ways of thinking.

Chapters
- Chapter 1: The Master and His Emissary→
- Chapter 2: Asymmetry and the Brain→
- Chapter 3: What Do the Two Hemispheres Do?→
- Chapter 4: Language, Truth and Music→
- Chapter 5: The Nature of the Two Worlds→
- Chapter 6: The Primacy of the Right Hemisphere→
- Chapter 7: The Triumph of the Left Hemisphere→
- Chapter 8: Imitation and the Evolution of Culture→
- Chapter 9: The Ancient World→
- Chapter 10: The Renaissance and the Reformation→
- Chapter 11: The Enlightenment→
- Chapter 12: Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution→
- Chapter 13: The Modern and Post-Modern Worlds→
- Chapter 14: The Master Betrayed→
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