Review\\n'It's very simple: this is one of the most important books ever published. And, yes, I do mean ever. It is a thrilling exposition of the nature of reality, and a devastating repudiation of the strident, banal orthodoxy that says it is childish and disreputable to believe that the world is alive with wonder and mystery ... No one else could have written this book. McGilchrist's range is as vast as the subject - which is everything - demands. He is impeccably rigorous, fearlessly honest, and compellingly readable. Put everything else aside. Read this now to know what sort of creature you are and what sort of place you inhabit.'\\n—Professor Charles Foster, Oxford University\\n'A work of remarkable inspiration and erudition, written with the soul and subtlety of a poet, the precision of a philosopher, and the no-nonsense grounding of a true scientist. In its pages, neuropsychology comes into conversation with philosophy, physics with poetry ... McGilchrist is the most generous and talented of writers: his fluid account, brilliantly and beautifully argued—and meticulously researched—brings us along with him, step by step, until we too can discern the horizons of a reconfigured world. McGilchrist's appreciation of ambiguity and paradox only enhances the clarity and vitality of his thought. This is a book of surpassing, even world-historical ambition, and—still more rare—one that delivers on its promise.'\\n—Professor Louis Sass, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University\\n'We badly need that now-almost-vanishingly rare personage, the true polymath. In Iain McGilchrist, in the nick of time, we have one. In this book, he draws quite magnificently on his post-disciplinary erudition precisely to explain how very much we are losing ... it is nothing less than a work of genius, diagnosing our dire predicament in full, and offering a way, instead.'\\n—Professor Rupert Read, Professor of Philosophy, University of East Anglia\\n'A magnificent achievement ... The Matter with Things confirms the author's status as a leading contemporary polymath. With rarely matched clarity as well as deep learning, McGilchrist demonstrates not just that there is more to the world than matter, but also that there is more to matter itself than grasped by the shallow materialisms of our age.'\\n—Rupert Shortt, Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge\\n'I loved The Master and his Emissary: this is even deeper.'\\n—Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, NYU\\n'In 2009 Iain McGilchrist published The Master and His Emissary, a densely researched and entirely thrilling examination of the difference between the two kinds of thinking typical of the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Now comes his new book, The Matter with Things (Perspectiva Press), which takes that basic idea much further and demonstrates, with an immense range of learning and beautifully clear prose, how important it is to be aware of the whole and not merely the parts, how analysis should come after insight and not before it, how right-hemisphere thinking, with its openness to experience, is a better guide to reality than the narrowly focused, rule-based way the left hemisphere regards the world ... I have spent a decade absorbing the vision of McGilchrist's previous book; I shall be happy to spend the rest of my life with this one, and still be learning things when I get to the end.'\\n—Philip Pullman, Book of the Year, New Statesman\\n'This is the most extraordinary book. It's got evidence on every page of a mind that is stocked so richly and has meditated so long and so clearly on the most important subject we can face. I can't recommend it enough: it's an astonishing book, that will change many, many people's lives.'\\n—Philip Pullman, speaking at the How To Academy, 9 November 2021\\n'Though not quite yet a household name, Iain McGilchrist is leading a quiet but far-reaching revolution in the understanding of who we are as human beings, one with potentially momentous consequences for many of