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World Soul - A History (Hardcover)
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World Soul - A History (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Philosophical Concepts
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Many philosophers and scientists over the course of history have
held that the world is alive. It has a soul, which governs it and
binds it together. This suggestion, once so wide-spread, may strike
many of us today as strange and antiquated-in fact, there are few
other concepts that, on their face, so capture the sheer distance
between us and our philosophical inheritance. But the idea of a
world soul has held so strong a grip upon philosophers'
imaginations for over 2,000 years, that it continues to underpin
and even structure how we conceive of time and space. The concept
of the world soul is difficult to understand in large part because
over the course of history it has been invoked to very different
ends and within the frameworks of very different ontologies and
philosophical systems, with varying concepts of the world soul
emerging as a result. This volume brings together eleven chapters
by leading philosophers in their respective fields that
collectively explore the various ways in which this concept has
been understood and employed, covering the following philosophical
areas: Platonism, Stoicism, Medieval, Indian or Vedantic, Kabbalah,
Renaissance, Early Modern, German Romanticism, German Idealism,
American Transcendentalism, and contemporary quantum mechanics and
panpsychism theories. In addition, short reflections illuminate the
impact the concept of the world soul has had on a small selection
of areas outside of philosophy, such as harmony, the biological
concept of spontaneous generation, Henry Purcell, psychoanalysis,
and Gaia theories.
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