The master and his emissary
Subtitle: the divided brain and the making of the Western world
By: Iain McGilchrist.
Publisher: Yale University Press; Brand: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780300148787
Subjects: Cerebral dominance; Dominance, Cerebral; Cerebrum -- physiology; Cultural Evolution; Social Change -- history; Western World -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Asymmetry and the brain; title: What do the two hemispheres 'do'?; title: Language, truth, and music; title: The nature of the two worlds; title: The primacy of the right hemisphere; title: The triumph of the left hemisphere; title: Imitation and the evolution of culture; title: The ancient world; title: The Renaissance and Reformation; title: The Enlightenment; title: Romanticism; title: Modernism and postmodernism.