For reasons of space, proper names are included only where they are substantive within the text. All authors of papers are listed in the bibliography.
abstraction, left hemisphere and (i)
in Ancient Greece (i)
activity, versus passivity (i)
addiction, lateralisation and (i)
Adorno, Theodor W. (i), (ii) n. 23
aesthetic sense, lateralisation and (i), (ii) n. 430
Aestheticism (i)
affect, primacy of (i), (ii) n. 26, (iii) n. 29
Ajuriaguerra, J. de (i), (ii), (iii)
Alajouanine, T. (i)
Alberti (i)
Alcaeus (i)
alexithymia (i)
‘alien hand’ (i)
ambiguity, right hemisphere and (i)
Ambrose of Milan (i)
amusia (i)
Anacreon (i)
André, Carl (i)
anger, left hemisphere and (i)
Annett, Marian (i)
anorexia nervosa (i), (ii) n. 64
apeiron, the (i)
aphasia (i)
Apollo and Dionysus (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) n. 1, (vii) n. 70
appetites, lateralisation and (i), (ii) n. 348
apraxia (i)
archē, the (i)
Aristotle (i); (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
body and, the (i)
importance of context (i), (ii), (iii)
melancholy and (i)
nous and (i)
tragedy an organic being (i)
universal in the particular, the (i)
Arnheim, Rudolf (i)
art, works of seen as living beings (i)
Artaud, Antonin (i)
artificiality, left hemisphere and (i), (ii) nn. 189–90
artist, as divinely inspired, (i)
Asperger, Hans (i); syndrome (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
association, right hemisphere and (i)
asymmetry passim; and
of attention (i)
of emotion (i)
of frontal lobes (i)
of hemispheric interaction (i), esp. (ii), (iii)
of the planum temporale (i), (ii), (iii)
of the universe (i)
attention passim; and
as constitutive of the world (i), (ii), (iii)
hemineglect (i)
hierarchy of (i)
in birds and animals (i)
lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 35, (v) n. 47, (vi) n. 122
value and (i)
Aubrey, John (i)
Auden, W. H. (i)
auditory agnosia (i)
Aufhebung (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
individual in relation to the group and (i), (ii), (iii)
interhemispheric relationship and (i), (ii)
Augustine of Hippo, St (i)
Augustus Caesar (i)
Austen, Jane (i)
autism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii) n. 75
autonomic nervous system (i), (ii) n. 349
Avianus Vindicianus (i) n. 1
Bach, J. S. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam (i), (ii) n. 17
Baillie, John (i)
Bakan, D. (i)
Balzac, Honoré de (i), (ii) n. 18
Banich, Marie (i)
Barbault, Jean (i)
Barenboim, Daniel (i) n. 29
Baron-Cohen, Simon (i)
Bartok, Béla (i)
basal ganglia (i), (ii), (iii) n. 21
Bateson, Gregory (i)
Baudelaire, Charles (i)
Bayley, John (i)
Beard, Mary (i)
beauty, see also aesthetic sense
free nature of (i), (ii) n. 34–6
not socially constructed (i), (ii)
Beckett, Samuel (i)
Bellmer, Hans (i)
Bellow, Saul (i)
Bentham, Jeremy (i), (ii), (iii)
the tenets of the Enlightenment (i)
the nature of Romanticism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Berlioz, Hector (i)
Bernini, Gianlorenzo (i), (ii) n. 99
‘betweenness’
all experience a form of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
belief and (i)
cultural history and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
imitation and (i)
music and (i)
right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
sight, spatial depth and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Bierstadt, Alfred (i)
bipolar disorder (i)
black bile (i)
Black, Max (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 11
Blackstone, Sir William (i)
Blake, William (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) n. 129
intersubjective constitution of reality (i), (ii), (iii) n. 79
relationship between the hemispheres (i)
Blankenburg, Wolfgang (i) n. 106
Bleuler, Eugen (i)
Bloom, Allan (i)
body passim; and
lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii)
music and (i)
language and (i)
left side, the
in Ancient Rome (i) n. 86
in the Renaissance (i)
in Romanticism (i)
in Chinese culture (i)
‘lived body’, the (i)
and soul (or mind)
in Ancient Greece (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
in the Renaissance and Reformation (i), (ii), (iii)
in the Enlightenment (i), (ii)
Bogen, Joseph (i), (ii), (iii)
Bohm, David (i)
Boleyn, Anne (i)
Bolte-Taylor, Jill (i) n. 18
Boltzmann, Ludwig (i)
borderline personality disorder (i)
arising with the Enlightenment (i)
in modernism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Borges, Jorge Luis (i)
Boulez, Pierre (i) n. 93
Bowles, William Lisle (i)
Boyle, David (i) n. 124
brain passim; and
aspects of evolution of (i)
embryology of (i)
frontal expansion of (i)
inter-individual variation and (i)
petalias (i)
relation between structure and function in (i)
significance of structure of (i)
Braudel, Fernand (i), (ii), (iii)
Braun, Claude (i) n. 4
Britten, Benjamin (i)
Broca, Paul (i)
Brown-Séquard, C.-E. (i)
Brunelleschi, F. (i)
Bruno, Giordano (i)
Büchner, Ludwig (i)
Burckhardt, Jacob (i), (ii) n. 35
Burke, Edmund (i), (ii), (iii)
Burney, Frances, Mme d’Arblay (i)
Burton, Robert (i)
Byrd, William (i)
callosal agenesis (i)
callosotomy, see commissurotomy
Calvin, Jean (i)
Canetti, Elias (i)
Capgras syndrome (i), (ii), (iii)
caricature (i)
Carracci, Annibale (i)
Carroll, Lewis (i)
Carter, Elliott (i) n. 93
Casares, Bioy (i)
Cassirer, Ernst (i), (ii), (iii) n. 55
Castiglione, Baldassare (i)
Castle, Terry (i)
category formation (i), (ii), (iii)
lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
relationship to language (i), (ii), (iii)
Plato and (i)
in the Renaissance and Reformation (i), (ii), (iii)
in the Enlightenment (i), (ii)
Catherine of Siena, St (i)
Catullus (i)
caudate (i), (ii), (iii) n. 40
certainty
fallacy of (i)
left hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
in the Reformation (i)
in the Enlightenment (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Chabris, C. F. (i)
Chagall, M. (i)
Chamfort, Nicolas (i)
Charles V, of Spain (i)
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Lord (i)
Chinese
ambiguity and (i)
averse to atomisation (i), (ii) n. 95
honouring the left side (i)
language and lateralisation (i), (ii)
origins of written language (i)
Chomsky, Noam (i), (ii), (iii)
Chopin, Frédéric (i)
Chrysippus (i)
Chuang Tzu (i)
Churchland, Patricia (i), (ii)
Cicero (i)
Cimabue (i)
cingulate cortex (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii) n. 40
clarity
left hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii) n. 106
problematic nature of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
in the Enlightenment (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Clark, Kenneth (i) n. 35
Clarke, Michael (i)
Claude (Gellée, ‘Le Lorrain’) (i), (ii), (iii)
Cole, Thomas (i)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Collins, Williams (i)
colour, lateralisation and (i), (ii) n. 291
commissurotomy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
revealing distinct ‘personalities’ (i), (ii)
commodification of art (i), (ii) n. 32
concept formation
evident in birds and fishes (i)
prior to language (i)
confabulation (i)
conjugate eye movements, right hemisphere and (i)
Conrad, Peter (i)
consciousness
action and (i)
tree, not a bird, a (i)
unity of (i)
Constantine, Emperor (i)
context
alphabet and, the (i)
essential to understanding (i), (ii)
right hemisphere and (i)
in the Renaissance and Reformation (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
in the Enlightenment (i)
in Romanticism (i), (ii), (iii)
in modernism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
in Oriental culture (i)
Corballis, Michael C. (i)
Corbin, Alain (i)
Corinth, Lovis (i)
corpus callosum
brain asymmetry and (i)
brain size and (i)
inhibition and (i), (ii), (iii) n. 17
structure of (i)
Corpus Hermeticum (i)
Costa, L. D. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Cowper, William (i)
cradling bias (i), (ii), (iii) nn. 267–8
Cranach, Lucas (i)
Crashaw, Richard (i)
creativity, lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii) n. 85, (iv) n. 452
Croce, Benedetto (i) n. 48
Crow, T. J. (i)
Cubism (i)
curvilinearity, see rectilinearity
Cusa, Nicholas of (i)
Cutting, John passim and: (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) n. 4, (vi) n. 123, (vii) n. 332, (viii) 461, (ix) n. 526, (x) n. 45, (xi) n. 29
Dadaism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Dadd, Richard (i)
Dali, Salvador (i)
Damasio, Antonio (i)
David, Jacques-Louis (i)
Dawkins, Richard (i), (ii), (iii)
de Kerckhove, D. (i)
de Nerval, Gérard (i)
de Quincey, Thomas (i), (ii), (iii)
de Selincourt, Aubrey (i)
Degas, Edgar (i)
Delacroix, Eugène (i), (ii), (iii) n. 129
deliberate self-harm (i)
delusional misidentification (i)
Demetrius Phalereus (i)
Democritus (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 4, (v) n. 69
denial, left hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Dennett, Daniel (i), (ii) n. 1
depression, lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii) n. 296
depth, right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty (i)
in Heraclitus (i)
in the Renaissance (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
in Romanticism (i), (ii), (iii) n. 47, (iv) n. 94
in modernism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Descartes, René (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
emotion, the body and (i), (ii)
Heidegger and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
madness, the left hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
devil’s advocate, right hemisphere as (i)
Dewey, John (i), (ii), (iii) n. 14
dichotic listening (i)
Dickens, Charles (i)
Diderot, Denis (i), (ii), (iii)
Diogenes Laertius (i), (ii) n. 69
dissociation, left hemisphere and (i), (ii)
distance, distinguished from detachment (i)
division, left hemisphere and (i)
Dodds, E. R. (i)
Donne, John (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) n. 74
dopamine (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Dowland, John (i)
drama (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
transparency and (i)
necessary distance and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
dreaming, lateralisation and (i), (ii)
Dreyfus, Hubert (i), (ii); & Stuart (i)
Dryden, John (i)
dualism, simplistic (i)
DuBois-Reymond, Emil (i)
Duccio (i)
Duchamp, Marcel (i), (ii), (iii) n. 29
Ducros, Louis (i)
Dunbar, Robin (i), (ii), (iii)
Durkheim, Émile (i)
Eberstaller, O. (i)
Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von (i), (ii)
Einstein, Albert (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) n. 5, (vi) n. 62
‘either/or’, left hemisphere and (i), (ii)
cultural history and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Eksteins, Modris (i)
Elster, Jon (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 29
Emin, Tracey (i)
emotion
asymmetry of (i)
expressivity of (i)
hemispheric differences in timbre (i), (ii) n. 285, (iii) n. 287, (iv) n. 312, (v) n. 457
receptivity to (i)
role in constituting the self (i)
empathy
right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Empedocles of Agrigentum (i), (ii)
environmental dependency syndrome, see forced utilisation behaviour
epigenetic mechanisms (i), (ii), (iii)
Epimenides of Knossos (i)
epistemology, see knowledge and understanding
Erasmus (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Erigonos (i)
Escher, M. C. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Esenin, Sergei (i)
Eubulides of Miletus (i)
Euripides (i)
exploration, right hemisphere and (i), (ii)
faces
absence in Homer (i)
physiognomy (i)
portraiture, asymmetry in (i), (ii), (iii) nn. 6–7, (iv) n. 11
portrayal of, and direction of gaze (i)
right hemisphere and (i), (ii)
self-portraits (i), (ii), (iii)
familiarity, Heidegger and (i)
lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
novelty and (i)
partial information and (i)
Romanticism and the transcendence of (i), (ii)
‘stickiness’ and (i), (ii), (iii)
wissen, distinguished from kennen and (i)
fantasy, see imagination
faux amis, interhemispheric (i)
Feinberg, T. E. (i)
Feuerbach, Ludwig (i)
Feyerabend, Paul (i) n. 8
Fichte, J. G. (i)
Fischer, O. (i)
flexibility, right hemisphere and (i)
‘flying mathematicians’ (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Fodor, Jerry (i)
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de (i), (ii), (iii) n. 18
forced utilisation behaviour (i)
Foss, Martin (i)
Foucault, Michel (i)
fractality (i) n. 153
Frankl, Viktor (i) n. 103
Freedberg, David (i)
Freud, Sigmund (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii) n. 88
Hughlings Jackson and the primary process (i)
uncanny and, the (i)
Friedrich, Caspar David (i) n. 28
Frings, Manfred (i)
Frith, C. D. (i)
expansion (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); (right) (i)
modulation of posterior cortex by (i), (ii), (iii)
prefrontal cortex
ambiguity and (i)
attention and (i)
flexibility and (i)
implicit meaning and (i)
insight and (i)
frontal lobes: prefrontal
morality and (i)
music and (i)
problem-solving (i)
time and (i)
Frost, Robert (i)
Fry, Roger (i)
Gaburo, Kenneth (i)
gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) (i)
Gauss, C. F. (i)
Gazzaniga, Michael S. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi) n. 58
Gestalt perception, early Greek paradox and (i)
individuality and (i), (ii), (iii)
modernism and loss of (i), (ii), (iii)
right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) n. 122
gesture
interpretation by the right hemisphere (i)
thought, language and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Ghirlandaio (i)
Giddens, Anthony (i)
Gill, Christopher (i), (ii), (iii) n. 29
Gilpin, William (i)
Glass, Philip (i)
glutamate (i)
Gödel, Kurt (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Göding, H. (i)
Goethe, J. W. von (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) n. 66, (viii) n. 104
indeterminate nature of being (i)
man not separate from the world (i), (ii)
necessity of overcoming abstraction (i)
universal in the particular, the (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Goldberg, E. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) n. 4, (vi) n. 16
Gombrich, Ernst (i), (ii), (iii)
Gorgias (i)
Gosse, Philip (i)
Gowers, Sir William (i) n. 232
Gozzoli (i)
grasp, left hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Graves, Robert (i), (ii), (iii) n. 120
Greenberg, Clement (i)
Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke (i)
Griffin, Roger (i)
Grüsser, O.-J. (i)
Hagège, Claude (i)
Halle, Adam de la (i)
Hamann, J. G. (i)
handedness (i), (ii) n. 16, (iii) n. 24
left hemisphere expansion and (i)
Handel, G. F. (i)
happiness (i)
Hardy, Thomas (i), (ii), (iii)
Havelock, Eric (i)
Haydn, Joseph (i), (ii), (iii)
Hazlitt, William (i), (ii), (iii)
Hécaen, H. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Hegel, G. W. F. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) n. 49
‘glint’ of self-awareness, the (i)
relation between the hemispheres (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
young Hegelians and, the (i)
Heidegger, Martin (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii)
indirect path to knowledge (i), (ii), (iii) n. 39, (iv) n. 63
modernity as world-picture (i), (ii), (iii)
relation between the hemispheres (i), (ii), (iii)
Heilman, Kenneth (i)
Heine, Heinrich (i)
Heisenberg, Werner (i), (ii), (iii)
Heller, Erich (i)
Hellige, Joseph (i), (ii) n. 5
Helmholtz, H. von (i)
hemiface, left greater than right (i)
hemisphere inactivation (i)
hemisphere, left
as sleepwalker (i)
Heraclitus (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv) n. 104
relation between the hemispheres (i)
Herbert, George (i)
Herder, J. G. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 48, (v) n. 96, (vi) n. 108
Hermes (i)
Heschl, R. (i)
hippocampus, expansion in taxi-drivers (i)
Hippocrates (i)
Hitler, Adolf (i)
Hoff, H. (i)
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (i)
Hofstadter, Douglas (i) n. 8
Hogarth, William (i)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (i), (ii), (iii) n. 7
Hölderlin, Friedrich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Homer (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
body and the self in, the (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
gifts in (i)
metaphor and symbol in (i), (ii), (iii)
Socrates contra (i)
homosexuality (i)
Honegger, Arthur (i)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (i), (ii)
Hufschmidt, H.-J. (i), (ii), (iii)
Huizinga, Johan (i)
humanness
right hemisphere and (i)
distinguishing characteristics of (i)
Humboldt, W. von (i), (ii) n. 48
humour, right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)
Hunter, John (i)
Husserl, Edmund (i), (ii), (iii)
Huxley, T. H. (i)
Huysmans, J. K. (i)
hyperconsciousness, and schizophrenia (i)
hypnosis, left hemisphere and (i)
imagination (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
distinguished from fantasy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
imitation and (i)
interhemispheric co-operation and (i), (ii)
in modernism (i)
necessary for all understanding (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
suspicion of
Plato (i)
Reformation (i)
‘Second Reformation’ (i)
imaging techniques, limitations of (i), (ii) nn. 20–21
imitation (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) nn. 12–13, (vi) n. 20, (vii) n. 23
impersonal information, left hemisphere and (i)
implicitness
aversion to in the Reformation (i), (ii)
drama versus philosophy and (i), (ii)
Heraclitus and (i)
language and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
modernism and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
necessary nature of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
reason and (i)
right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
role of the left hemisphere in unfolding (i), (ii), (iii)
role of the right hemisphere in reintegrating (i)
Romanticism and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
understanding of in the Renaissance (i), (ii), (iii)
inanimate objects, see living, differentiated from non-living
individuality
imperfection and (i), (ii), (iii)
interconnectedness and (i), (ii), (iii)
right hemisphere and (i)
in the Ancient World (i), (ii), (iii)
in the Renaissance (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Industrial Revolution, the (i)
insight
into problems (‘aha’ phenomenon) (i), (ii)
into illness (i), (ii) n. 461; see also denial and anosognosia
inspiration
among the ancient Greeks (i)
in the Renaissance (i)
in Romanticism (i)
in Chinese culture (i) n. 31
instrumental actions, left hemisphere and (i)
integration, right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii) n. 90
interhemispheric relationship (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 121
metacontrol of (i)
intermanual conflict (i), (ii), (iii) n. 40
interpreter, left hemisphere as (i)
intersubjectivity, right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii)
ipseity, loss of in schizophrenia (i)
Jackson, John Hughlings (i), (ii)
James, Henry (i)
James, William (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Japanese
attitude to nature (i)
attitude to self-worth (i)
‘betweenness’ and (i), (ii), (iii)
emphasis on context and the whole (i)
past, the (i)
predilection for ambiguity (i), (ii)
scepticism towards abstraction (i)
script, kanji and kana (i)
words for seeing (i)
Jarman, Derek (i)
Jarry, Alfred (i)
Jaynes, Julian (i), (ii), (iii)
jazz (i)
Jefferson, Thomas (i)
Jespersen, O. (i)
Johnson, M. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Johnson, Samuel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Jonson, Ben (i)
Jung, Carl (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Kanner, Leo (i)
Kant, Immanuel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix) n. 6
‘cheerless gloom of chance’ (i)
nature of beauty (i)
sensus communis (i)
Vernunft and Verstand (i)
Keats, John (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) n. 48
Keene, Donald (i)
Kekulé, F. A. (i)
kenosis (i)
Kepler, Johannes (i)
Kerényi, Carl (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) n. 22
Kierkegaard, Søren (i)
Kinsbourne, Marcel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) n. 4, (viii) n. 119
Kirkup, James (i)
Kleist, Heinrich von (i), (ii)
knowledge
as grasp (i)
as seeing (i)
versus experience (i), (ii), (iii)
wissen, distinguished from kennen (i)
Koestler, Arthur (i)
Kornhuber, H. (i)
Kraepelin, Emil (i)
Kraus, Karl (i)
Kriss-Rettenbeck, L. (i)
Kuhn, Thomas (i)
Kurtz, O. (i)
Lafréri, A. (i)
Laing, R. D. (i)
Lakoff, G. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Lamentations (i)
Langer, Suzanne (i)
language passim; and
anatomical basis of (i)
‘I–it’ communication and (i)
imitation and (i)
‘kiki/bouba’ effect (i)
lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii) n. 17
left hemisphere expansion and (i), (ii) n. 24
not an analytic process (i)
not necessary for communication (i)
not necessary for thought (i), (ii) n. 69
origins of (i)
rooted in the body (i)
shaping the landscape of reality (i), (ii) n. 76
written, the evolution of, and lateralisation (i)
Larkin, Philip (i)
lateralisation passim; and
ancient Greeks and (i)
‘flying mathematicians’ and (i)
imitation and (i)
in birds and animals (i)
neuroendocrine function and (i), (ii)
neuronal architecture and (i), (ii)
neurotransmitters and (i), (ii), (iii)
precision, fixity and (i)
‘snowball’ mechanism and (i)
speech and (i)
winner-takes-all effects and (i)
Latto, R. (i)
Laurana, Luciano (i)
Lauridsen, Morten (i)
Lautréamont, Comte de (Isidore Ducasse) (i)
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) (i)
LeDoux, J. E. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
left side (of the body), see body
Leibniz, G. W. (i), (ii), (iii)
Leonardo (i), (ii), (iii) n. 7
Lermontov, Mikhail (i)
Lessing, G. E. (i)
Lévi-Strauss, C. (i) n. 102
Levitsky, W. (i)
Levy, J. (i)
Lhermitte, F. (i), (ii), (iii)
Libet, Benjamin (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Ligeti, György (i), (ii) n. 93
Lille, Alain de (i)
Liszt, Franz (i)
living, differentiated from non-living, laterality and (i), (ii) n. 175, (iii) n. 179
longing (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii) n. 51
L’Orange, H. P. (i)
Lordat, Jacques (i)
Luther, Martin (i), (ii), (iii)
Lysippus (i)
Machaut, Guillaume de (i)
Machiavelli, Niccolò (i), (ii)
machines, left hemisphere and (i)
MacMillan, James (i)
Magritte, René (i)
Mahler, Gustave (i) n. 32
Malevich, Kazimir (i)
Malinowski, B. (i)
Mallarmé, Stéphane (i)
Mandelstam, Nadezhda (i)
Marinetti, Filippo (i)
Martial d’Auvergne (i), (ii) n. 1
Martin, F. D. (i)
Marx, Karl (i)
mathematical skills (i), (ii) n. 313
Matisse, Henri (i)
Matthews, Eric (i)
Maudsley, Henry (i)
Maximilian, Emperor (i)
Mayakovsky, Vladimir (i)
McGinn, Colin (i)
McManus, I. Chris (i)
McNeill, David (i), (ii) n. 63
Meister Eckhart (i) n. 98, (ii) n. 154, (iii) n. 44
melancholy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
see also sadness
memes (i)
Mendeleyev, D. I. (i)
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (i)
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
relation between the hemispheres (i)
transparency and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
metaphor passim; and
contrasted with symbol or simile (i), (ii)
lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) n. 135
primacy of the implicit and (i), (ii)
time and space (i)
transparency and (i), (ii), (iii)
understanding and (i), (ii), (iii)
the Ancient World and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
the Reformation and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
the Enlightenment and (i), (ii), (iii)
Romanticism and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
modernism and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Metrodorus (i)
Michelangelo (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
the nemesis of neo-Classical theory (i), (ii), (iii)
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig (i)
Mill, John Stuart (i)
Miller, Geoffrey (i)
Milton, John (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Blake and (i)
mimesis, see imitation
mind–brain relationship (i), (ii) n. 15
Minimalism (i)
Minsky, Marvin (i) n. 8
mirror neurones (i), (ii), (iii)
misoplegia (i)
Mithen, Steven (i), (ii), (iii)
money, the origins of (i)
Montaigne, Michel de (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) n. 18, (viii) n. 119
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de (i)
Monteverdi, Claudio (i)
moral sense (i)
More, Sir Thomas (i)
Mozart, W. A. (i), (ii), (iii)
multiple personality disorder (i)
Mundurukú, the (i)
music
betweenness and (i), (ii), (iii)
‘I–thou’ communication and (i)
kennen, distinguished from wissen and (i)
possible origin of language (i)
Plato and (i)
in the Renaissance and Reformation (i), (ii), (iii)
in the Enlightenment (i), (ii)
Musil, Robert (i)
mutual gaze (i)
myelination, lateralisation and (i), (ii)
Naess, Arne (i)
Nagel, Thomas (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) n. 56
narrative, right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
nature, love of
in the Renaissance (i)
‘necessary distance’ (i)
frontal lobes and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
the Ancient World and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
the Renaissance and (i), (ii), (iii)
Needham, Joseph (i), (ii), (iii)
negation as creation (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
newness
distinguished from novelty (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Newton, Isaac (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) n. 125
Newton, Nakita (i)
Nietzsche, Friedrich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii) n. 32
desolation of the modern condition (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
relation between the hemispheres (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Nilus of Sinai (i) n. 74
Nochlin, Linda (i)
Noë, Alva (i)
non-instrumental actions, right hemisphere and (i)
non-verbal communication, right hemisphere and (i)
noradrenaline (i), (ii), (iii)
norepinephrine, see noradrenaline
Novalis (Friedrich Leopold, Freiherr von Hardenberg) (i), (ii) n. 97
O’Regan, Kevin (i)
Oksapmin, the (i)
Okyo, M. (i)
Oldfield, R. C. (i)
Olson, Richard (i)
‘opponent processors’ (i)
opposites, union of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)
optimism
the left hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
the Enlightenment and (i), (ii)
Oriental thinking styles, contrasted with Western (i)
originality (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Ornstein, Robert (i), (ii) n. 4
Ortega y Gasset, José (i)
Otto, Rudolf (i) n. 163
Ovid (i)
Packe, M. St J. (i)
Panksepp, Jaak (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) n. 26
Heraclitus and (i)
nature of rationality and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
nature of understanding and (i), (ii)
of self-consciousness (i), (ii)
Paradzhanov, Sergei (i)
paranoia, left hemisphere and (i), (ii) n. 189
parietal cortex
attention and (i)
body image and (i), (ii), (iii)
enlargement (i)
gesture and (i)
music and (i)
reason and (i)
time and (i)
visuospatial skills and (i), (ii)
inferior parietal lobule, (i), (ii), (iii)
Parmenides (i), (ii), (iii) n. 65
Parnas, Josef (i)
part recognition, left hemisphere and (i), (ii)
Pärt, Arvo (i)
particularity, relationship with universality (see also Goethe) (i)
Pascal, Blaise, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
right hemisphere world and (i), (ii)
Passmore, John (i)
Pasteur, Louis (i), (ii) n. 20
Pausanias (i)
Pepperberg, Irene (i)
personal experience, right hemisphere and (i), (ii)
personality, lateralisation and (i)
perspective
lateralisation and (i)
in time and space at the Renaissance (i)
in the Enlightenment (i)
in Romanticism (i)
petalias (i), (ii), (iii) nn. 134–5
Pfeifer, R. (i)
Picasso, Pablo (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Piccolomini, Aeneas Sylvius (Pope Pius II) (i)
Pinker, Steven (i)
Pirahã, the (i)
Piranesi, G. B. (i)
Pisan, Christine de (i)
Planck, Max (i), (ii) n. 62, (iii) n. 65
planum temporale (i), (ii) n. 22, (iii) n. 145
Plato (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv)
primacy of the abstract and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
seeing and (i)
strictures on myth and music (i)
wonder and (i)
Playfair, Lyon (i)
Plotinus (i)
Plutarch (i)
Poincaré, Henri (i), (ii) n. 313, (iii) n. 430
Polanski, Roman (i)
Polemon of Laodicea (i)
Ponge, Francis (i)
Pope, Alexander (i), (ii), (iii)
Popelinière, Mme de la (i)
portraiture, asymmetry in, see face
post-modernism (i)
Pötzl, O. (i)
Poussin, Nicolas (i)
pragmatics, right hemisphere and (i), (ii)
precuneus (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 325
predictability, left hemisphere and (i)
‘presencing’, right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)
Prometheus (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) n. 73
Propertius (i)
proprioception (i)
prosopagnosia (i), (ii), (iii)
psychopathic personality (i), (ii) n. 470, (iii) n. 43
punding (i)
Pushkin, Aleksandr (i)
Quechi, the (i)
Rabelais, François (i)
Racine, Jean (i)
Radcliffe, Ann (i)
Radden, Jennifer (i)
Ramachandran, V. S. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
rationality (see also reason)
culture-bound nature of (i), (ii)
distinguished from reason (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 3
encroachment on intuition (i), (ii), (iii)
in modernism (i)
necessity of submission to reason (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Nietzsche on (i)
reflexivity of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
self-undermining nature of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
reason (see also rationality)
aware of its own limitations (i)
broader, and more complex than, rationality (i), (ii), (iii)
lateralisation and (i)
not dependent on language (i)
reasonableness (i)
rooted in the body (i), (ii), (iii)
rectilinearity, versus curvilinearity (i), (ii) n. 129
cognitive processes and (i), (ii), (iii)
desire and (i)
Heidegger and (i)
neurophysiology and (i)
Vico and (i) n. 31
reductionism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
reflexivity, left hemisphere and (i), (ii)
Reformation, the (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
‘second Reformation’, the (i)
religious sense, lateralisation and (i)
representation
left hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
in modernity (i)
Révész, G. (i)
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Richards, Huw (i)
Richardson, Samuel (i)
Richter, J. P. F. (‘Jean Paul’) (i), (ii) n. 147
Ricks, Christopher (i)
Ricoeur, Paul (i)
Rimbaud, Arthur (i)
Robbe-Grillet, Alain (i)
Roman Empire, the (i)
Ronsard, Pierre de (i)
Rorty, Richard (i)
Roseto effect (i)
Rotenberg V.S., (i) n. 312
roundness, see rectilinearity, versus curvilinearity
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (i), (ii), (iii) n. 48
Russell, Bertrand (i)
Ryoan-ji (i) n. 49
Sacks, Oliver (i)
Sacrobosco, Johannes de (i)
sadness, right hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 470
see also melancholy
sameness versus difference, lateralisation and (i)
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (i)
Sass, Louis A. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Saussure, F. de (i)
savant syndromes (i)
Scheler, Max (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Drang and Geist (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) n. 89
on nature of poetry (i)
value and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix) n. 31
Schelling, F. W. J. (i)
Schiele, Egon (i)
schizophrenia
categorisation and (i)
epidemiology of (i)
excessive self-consciousness in (i)
insight in (i)
interhemispheric inhibition and (i)
Jaynes and (i)
loss of the Gestalt in (i)
loss of the implicit in (i)
modernism and the phenomenology of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
plane of focus and (i)
possible abnormal lateralisation in (i), (ii)
right frontal skills and (i), (ii)
right hemisphere dysfunction and (i), (ii) nn. 13–14
right temporoparietal functions and (i)
sense of the self in (i)
uncanny and, the (i)
Schlegel, A. W. (i)
Schlegel, Friedrich (i)
Schleiermacher, F. (i)
Schopenhauer, Arthur (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 6, (v) n. 421, (vi) n. 34
Schreber, Daniel Paul (i), (ii)
Schroeder, Severin (i)
Schwarzkogler, Rudolf (i)
Schwitters, Kurt (i)
science, distinguished from materialism (i)
Seafarer, The (i)
Seaford, Richard (i)
self, lateralisation and sense of (i), (ii) n. 170
self-awareness, lateralisation and (i), (ii)
self-referentiality
and the left hemisphere (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
in the Reformation (i)
in modernism (i)
semi-transparency, see transparency
Sévigné, Mme de, (i) n. 72
Shakespeare, William (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
the right hemisphere world and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Romanticism and (i), (ii), (iii)
Shanks, Andrew (i) n. 163
shape recognition, lateralisation and (i)
Shebalin, V. (i)
Shelley, Mary (i)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Sherover, C. (i)
Sherrington, Sir Charles (i)
Shigematsu, Soiku (i)
Shklovsky, Viktor (i)
Shlain, Leonard (i)
Shostakovich, Dmitri (i)
Sidgwick, Henry (i) n. 103
sign language (i)
Silanion (i)
Simons, D. J. (i)
Sixsmith, Martin (i)
Skelton, John (i)
skills
admired in Renaissance (i), (ii)
derogated in modernity (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
implicit nature of (i)
language an empathic, embodied skill (i)
Skoyles, John (i)
smell, sense of (i), (ii) n. 103, (iii) n. 12
Snell, Bruno (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii) n. 29, (ix) n. 38
Socrates (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 119
solipsism (i)
song-birds, expansion of left hemisphere in (i)
Sontag, Susan (i)
Sophocles (i)
Sorai, Ogyu (i)
sorcerer’s apprentice (i)
Spencer, Stanley (i)
Spenser, Edmund (i)
Sperry, Roger (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) n. 11
Spinoza, Benedict (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
‘spleen’ (i)
split-brain, see commissurotomy
St Saviour in Khora, church of (i), (ii)
Stanghellini, Giovanni (i), (ii), (iii)
stare, see vision
lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii)
in the pre-Socratics (i)
in the Reformation (i)
in the Enlightenment (i)
in Romanticism (i), (ii), (iii)
in modernism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Steiner, George (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Sterne, Laurence (i)
Stevens, Wallace (i)
‘stickiness’, left hemisphere and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Stockhausen, Karlheinz (i), (ii), (iii) n. 93
strategic mapping, left hemisphere and (i)
Stravinsky, Igor (i), (ii), (iii)
Strindberg, August (i)
Stuss, D. T. (i)
sublation, see Aufhebung
sublime, the (i)
subthalamic nuclei (i), (ii) n. 60
Surrealism (i)
Sutherland, Stuart (i)
syllogisms (i)
symmetry (i), (ii), (iii) n. 52
in the Ancient World (i)
in the Enlightenment (i)
Symmachus (i)
tachistoscope (i)
Tate, Nahum (i)
Taussig, Michael (i)
Tavener, John (i)
temporal cortex
emotion and (i)
gesture and (i)
insight and (i)
language and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
memory and (i)
recognition and (i), (ii), (iii)
superior temporal gyrus (i), (ii), (iii)
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (i), (ii), (iii)
terrain, distinguished from territory (i)
Theodosius, Emperor (i)
Theophrastus (i), (ii), (iii) n. 69
‘theory of mind’, lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii) n. 202
Thompson, D’Arcy (i)
Thoth (i)
Tichborne, Chidiock (i)
time
individuality and (i), (ii), (iii)
series of instants (i), (ii), (iii)
time and causality (i), (ii), (iii)
in the Renaissance (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
in the Enlightenment (i)
in Romanticism (i)
Wordsworth’s ‘spots of time’ (i)
disruption in modernism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Tippett, Sir Michael (i)
Titian (i)
Tocqueville, Alexis de (i), (ii)
Tolstoy, Leo, Count (i), (ii) n. 121
Tomatis, Alfred (i)
tools, left hemisphere and (i), (ii)
totalitarianism, modernism and (i), (ii), (iii) n. 79
Traherne, Thomas (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 37
transparency
Merleau-Ponty and (i), (ii), (iii) n. 127
metaphor, myth and (i), (ii) n. 22
in painting, poetry and drama (i), (ii)
self-consciousness and (i)
Whitehead and (i) n. 129
in the Renaissance and Reformation (i), (ii), (iii)
problematic in modernism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Troeltsch, Ernst (i)
truth, lateralisation and (i), (ii), (iii)
Turner, J. M. W. (i), (ii), (iii) n. 47
Tzara, Tristan (Samy Rosenstock) (i)
uncanny, the (i)
unconscious will, primacy of (i)
understanding, models as essential to (i), (ii), (iii)
uniqueness, right hemisphere and (i)
universality, see particularity
‘unworlding’, in schizophrenia (i), (ii)
Upanishads, The (i)
utility, left hemisphere and (i)
Vaihinger, Hans (i)
van Eyck, Jan & Hubert (i), (ii) n. 35
van Gogh, Vincent (i), (ii) n. 42
Varese, Edgard (i) n. 93
Vasari, Giorgio (i)
Vaughan, Henry (i), (ii), (iii) n. 37
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de (i), (ii), (iii)
Verlaine, Paul (i)
Vernet, C.-J. (i)
Verstand, distinguished from Vernunft (i), (ii)
Vico, G. B. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) n. 48, (vi) n. 31
Vié, J. (i)
Villemure, J.-G. (i)
Villeneuve (i)
Villon, François (i)
Virgil (i)
Virilio, Paul (i)
vision
knowledge and (i)
as a reciprocal process (i)
staring, effects of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
in the Ancient Greek world (i)
in the Enlightenment (i)
Vogt, Karl (i)
Vygotsky L. S. (i) n. 30
Wagner, Richard (i) n. 31
Waismann, F. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n. 85
Walpole, Horace (i)
Walsh, C. (i)
Wanderer, The (i)
Ward-Perkins, Bryan (i)
Watt, Douglas (i)
Waugh, Martin (i)
Weber, Max (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Webern, Anton (i)
Wernicke, C. (i)
white matter, significance of (i)
Whitehead, A. N. (i), (ii) n. 129, (iii) n. 5, (iv) n. 28
Wigan, Arthur (i), (ii), (iii) n. 2
Wilde, Oscar (i)
will (i)
concept of in Archaic Greece (i)
divided will (i)
unconscious will, primacy of (i)
Will, Edouard (i)
Wilson, Richard (i)
Winckelmann, J. J. (i), (ii) n. 69
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii) n. 153, (xiii) n. 50
effects of disengagement (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
importance of the implicit (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
problems of philosophising (i), (ii), (iii)
Wordsworth, William (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) n. 23, (xi) n. 94
implicit, the (i), (ii), (iii)
incarnate, the (i), (ii), (iii)
newness and ‘presencing’ (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
working memory, greater in right hemisphere (i)
writing, see language, written
Wyatt, Sir Thomas (i)
Xenakis, I. (i) n. 93
Yakovlevian torque (i), (ii) n. 15
Yeats, W. B. (i)
Young, Julian (i)
Zahavi, Dan (i)
Zeitraffer phenomenon (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Zeki, Semir (i)
Zeman, Adam (i)
Zeuxis (i)
‘zombie’ state (i)