You need to be a member of Channel McGilchrist to see this video, filmed in Iain’s beautiful garden on the Isle of Skye, but I will share some details here.Īlthough the book is in two volumes there is one overarching argument and that is that the horrendous natural challenges that we now face are a result of our way of looking at or being in the world, which has become increasingly left hemisphere dominated. However, all has been resolved as we now have a short video on Channel McGilchrist where Iain explains what the new book is all about. I can’t imagine how much work it must have been to make that change. In this 2020 video Iain talks about the book being in three parts, but we now know that it has been published in two volumes. Originally the book was due to be published by Penguin Random House, but we now know that the book will be published by Perspectiva Press. But some things have changed since this video was recorded, not least the publisher. More recently I heard Iain talk about his new book in this video (published in October 2020). See the posts under the heading ‘2019 The Matter with Things’, on The Divided Brain page on this blog. I made notes and shared them on this blog. In 2019, I heard him talk about it again, in a series of one hour lectures given at the Field and Field conference in the Cotswolds, UK. At that stage, the working title of the book was There are No Things. The first time I heard him talk about it was in 2018. I have now heard Iain McGilchrist talk about The Matter with Things a few times and it is interesting to hear how the book has evolved. I think this new format will make it easier to follow the notes. In The Master and His Emissary, the notes were included at the end of the book – 250 pages of very small typeface. As you can see, this time the notes are included in the margin of the page. A very short video on Channel McGilchrist, which turns the pages of the new book for us, indicates that this is the case. (I have wondered how much juggling about was needed to make each volume of equal length!) Maybe, and hopefully, the text in the new volumes will not be so dense. He says the new book took over him and his life and demanded to be written.Įach volume of the new book is 750 pages long. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, which is also a long book (over 500 pages), he started on this new book.
The writing of this book has been a 10 year long process, which means that no sooner had McGilchrist finished writing The Master and His Emissary. Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the Western World, which will be published in two volumes. In my last post, I wrote that I have pre-ordered Iain McGilchrist’s new book, The Matter with Things.
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