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‘The Matter with Things is a work of remarkable inspiration and erudition, written with the soul and subtlety of a poet, the precision of a philosopher, and the no- nonsense grounding of a true scientist.

– Professor Charles Foster, Oxford University, author of Being a Human and Being a Beast It is a vision that returns the world to life, and us to a better way of living in it: one we must embrace if we are to survive. And he shows us how to recognise the ‘signature’ of the left hemisphere in our thinking, so as to avoid making decisions that bring disaster in their wake.įollowing the paths of cutting-edge neurology, philosophy and physics, he reveals how each leads us to a similar vision of the world, one that is both profound and beautiful – and happens to be in line with the deepest traditions of human wisdom. He suggests that in order to understand ourselves and the world we need science and intuition, reason and imagination, not just one or two that they are in any case far from being in conflict and that the brain’s right hemisphere plays the most important part in each. In doing so, he argues that we have become enslaved to an account of things dominated by the brain’s left hemisphere, one that blinds us to an awe-inspiring reality that is all around us, had we but eyes to see it. Can we really neglect the sacred and divine?.Is the cosmos without purpose or value?.How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time?.Why, indeed, are we engaged in destroying everything that is valuable to us?.Are we ourselves nothing but the playthings of chance, embroiled in a war of all against all?.

Is the world essentially inert and mechanical – nothing but a collection of things for us to use?.

In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today: ‘I loved The Master and his Emissary: this is even deeper.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb > Or here for deliveries outside of the UK. (Philip Pullman nominated The Matter With Things as his Book of the Year.)įrom the author of the widely acclaimed The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (over 100,000 copies sold worldwide). I can’t recommend it enough: it’s an astonishing book, that will change many, many people’s lives.’ – Philip Pullman, speaking at the How To Academy, 9 November 2021 It’s got evidence on every page of a mind that is stocked so richly and has meditated so long and so clearly on the most important subject we can face.