The Matter With Things
Book description
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. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? Is the cosmos without…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Matter With Things as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It might sound pretentious but I want to know the truth about life. I want a book to tell me the truth, to open me up to it, and to spark me off. I want to feel woken up, shook up.
The Matter With Things is, I believe, one of the most important books written in the last 50 years, no, the last 100 years! It’s magnus opus in two weighty volumes, but just open one chapter and read it and you’ll be shaken awake. I read the whole of volume two.
It’s a remarkable work of great and enduring…
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