Iain McGilchrist

British psychiatrist and literary scholar who argues that the two hemispheres of the brain attend to the world in fundamentally different ways — and that Western civilization has become pathologically dominated by the left hemisphere.

The Master and His Emissary: the left hemisphere (focused, analytic, abstracts from context) and the right hemisphere (broad, contextual, attends to the world as it is) have opposing modes of attention — modernity has allowed the emissary (left) to usurp the master (right). The Matter with Things: a two-volume expansion of this argument into metaphysics.