• Finding meaning in a world gone mad – Iain McGilchrist

  • Sep 3 2024
  • Length: 23 mins
  • Podcast

Finding meaning in a world gone mad – Iain McGilchrist

Listen for free

View show details

  • Summary

  • Iain McGilchrist is an Oxford literary scholar, and a doctor in psychiatry and neuroscience. A champion of holistic thinking, Iain’s tour-de-force book The Master and His Emissary, along with his more recent The Matter with Things, have transformed academic and popular understanding not only of the human brain, but also of the importance of a fundamental worldview shift. His works sustain an in-depth critique of reductionism, and unfold different approaches for understanding who we are and what the world is.

    In this episode, Iain’s research on the differences between the left and right hemispheres provide the backdrop for discussions of the human experience of the sublime, and how important that experience is if we are to reestablish social and ecological balance in the world. He discusses his long-standing appreciation for the local, the place-based and the natural, suggesting that these offer avenues towards right-hemisphere aspects of our experience – aspects which have been neglected to our detriment.

    To watch the video of this series, visit: Planet Local Voices interview series.

    The music for this series is ‘Pines and Violet’, by Sky Toes.
    Show More Show Less
Social Sciences
Show More Show Less
activate_samplebutton_t1

What listeners say about Finding meaning in a world gone mad – Iain McGilchrist

Average Customer Ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com.au reviews

Amazon Reviews
No Reviews are Available
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.