The Master and His Emissary : the Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE TO THE NEW EXPANDED EDITION; INTRODUCTION THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY; THE STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK; WHY IS THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN IMPORTANT?; THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING TWO; DIFFERENCES ARE NOT ABSOLUTE, BUT EVEN SMALL DIFFERENCES GET TO BE AMPLIFIED; BRAIN ORGANISATION VARIES FROM INDIVIDUAL TO INDIVIDUAL; ESSENTIAL ASYMMETRY; PART ONE THE DIVIDED BRAIN; CHAPTER 1 ASYMMETRY AND THE BRAIN; WHY TWO HEMISPHERES?; THE FRONTAL EXPANSION; STRUCTURAL ASYMMETRY; THE ASYMMETRY OF FUNCTION
- THE NATURE OF ATTENTIONUNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 2 WHAT DO THE TWO HEMISPHERES 'DO'?; THE PATHWAYS TO KNOWLEDGE; BREADTH AND FLEXIBILITY VERSUS FOCUS AND GRASP; THE NEW VERSUS THE KNOWN; POSSIBILITY VERSUS PREDICTABILITY; INTEGRATION VERSUS DIVISION; THE HIERARCHY OF ATTENTION; THE WHOLE VERSUS THE PART; CONTEXT VERSUS ABSTRACTION; INDIVIDUALS VERSUS CATEGORIES; THE DIFFERENCES IN SAMENESS; THE PERSONAL VERSUS THE IMPERSONAL; THE LIVING VERSUS THE NON-LIVING; EMPATHY AND 'THEORY OF MIND'; EMOTIONAL ASYMMETRY; EMOTIONAL RECEPTIVITY; EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIVITY
- DIFFERENCES IN EMOTIONAL AFFINITYREASON VERSUS RATIONALITY; THE TWIN BODIES; MEANING AND THE IMPLICIT; MUSIC AND TIME; DEPTH; CERTAINTY; SELF-AWARENESS AND EMOTIONAL TIMBRE; MORAL SENSE; THE SELF; CODA: THE 'FRONT-BACK' PROBLEM; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 3 LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND MUSIC; THE NEW AND THE FAMILIAR, AND TWO KINDS OF KNOWING; WHAT LANGUAGE TELLS US ABOUT THE HEMISPHERES; THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE OR MUSIC: WHICH CAME FIRST?; COMMUNICATION WITHOUT LANGUAGE; THOUGHT WITHOUT LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE AND THE HAND; LANGUAGE AND MANIPULATION; METAPHOR; LANGUAGE ROOTED IN THE BODY
- THE RIGHT FRONTAL EXPANSIONCONCLUSION; CHAPTER 4 THE NATURE OF THE TWO WORLDS; DEWEY AND JAMES: CONTEXT AND THE NATURE OF TRUTH; HUSSERL AND THE IDEA OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY; MERLEAU-PONTY: EMPATHY AND THE BODY; HEIDEGGER AND THE NATURE OF BEING; SCHELER: THE IMPORTANCE OF VALUE IN CONSTITUTING REALITY; TWO WORLDS; FAUX AMIS; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 5 THE PRIMACY OF THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE; FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR THE PRIMARY ROLE OF THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE; THE PRIMACY OF THE IMPLICIT; PRIMACY OF AFFECT; THE PRIMACY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS WILL; BOTH THOUGHT AND ITS EXPRESSION ORIGINATE IN THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE
- RE-PRESENTATION WAITS ON PRESENTATIONTHE FUNCTIONING OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IS RIGHT-HEMISPHERE CONGRUENT; THE INTERMEDIATE PROCESSING CARRIED OUT BY THE LEFT HEMISPHERE; THE PROCESS OF REINTEGRATION; REINTEGRATION AS AUFHEBUNG; NECESSARY IGNORANCE; CHAPTER 6 THE TRIUMPH OF THE LEFT HEMISPHERE; THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HEMISPHERES; LEVEL ONE; LEVEL TWO; LEVEL THREE; CODA: SLEEPWALKING INTO THE ABYSS; PART TWO HOW THE BRAIN HAS SHAPED OUR WORLD; CHAPTER 7 IMITATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE; WHY HAVE THE SHIFTS OF BALANCE OCCURRED?; HOW HAVE THE SHIFTS OF BALANCE OCCURRED?
