This video (The Divided Brain) talks about the modern update to the popular but no-longer-sustainable understanding of the differences between the left and right hemispheres.
Assuming the perspective of the video, I take my favorite philosophers to be engaged in the task of bringing right-hemisphere balance to the philosophical conversation. (Particularly, William James, Henri Bergson, and Alfred North Whitehead.) (I suspect that Heidegger was up to something similar, but I understand his work far less well.)
And I think that twentieth-century philosophy can be seen as a story of left-hemisphere counter-insurgency. Positivistic analytic philosophy in the Anglophone sphere. Either structuralism, cynicism, or yet another return to neo-Kantianism in the Continental sphere.
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