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PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-10178181533X
ISBN-139781781815335
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038406086
Product Key Features
Number of Pages32 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWays of Attending : How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World
SubjectMovements / Psychoanalysis, General
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPsychology
AuthorIain Mcgilchrist
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight1.1 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
eBook FormatEPUB
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal612.82
SynopsisEverything we come to know and experience of the world depends on the way we attend to it. For reasons of survival, our brains have evolved to pay two kinds of attention to the world at the same time, though for the same reasons we cannot normally become aware of this neurological fact. This delivers two versions of the world with distinct qualities. In the one, associated with the right hemisphere of the brain, we experience the world as live, complex, embodied, implicit, full of individual, unique wholes which are nonetheless inseparably connected, as are we with it as a whole. In the other, associated with the left, we encounter the world as a representation, full of static, explicit, separable, bounded, but essentially fragmented entities, grouped into classes - but mechanistic and lifeless. As their civilisations declined, the world picture of first the Greeks and then the Romans moved from a fruitful balance of these to the triumph of the left hemisphere's view. We are busily repeating the pattern, perhaps for the last time., Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rather unusual way: governed by the narrowly focussed, target-driven left hemisphere of the brain. Forget everything you thought you knew about the difference between the hemispheres, because it will be largely wrong. It is not what each hemisphere does - they are both involved in everything - but how it does it, that matters. And the prime difference between the brain hemispheres is the manner in which they attend. For reasons of survival we need one hemisphere (in humans and many animals, the left) to pay narrow attention to detail, to grab hold of things we need, while the other, the right, keeps an eye out for everything else. The result is that one hemisphere is good at utilising the world, the other better at understanding it. Absent, present, detached, engaged, alienated, empathic, broad or narrow, sustained or piecemeal, attention has the power to alter whatever it meets. The play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged. How you attend to something - or don't attend to it - matters a very great deal. This book helps you to see what it is you may have been trained by our very unusual culture not to see.
LC Classification NumberQP376
