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 perhaps antiquated. This volume assembles scholars of philosophy and history to tell a story about the evolution of the concept of the world soul from antiquity to the twentieth century that will break down the historical barriers to understanding the world soul, both by exploring the concept in its various historical incarnations and by calling attention to some of…mehr
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 perhaps antiquated. This volume assembles scholars of philosophy and history to tell a story about the evolution of the concept of the world soul from antiquity to the twentieth century that will break down the historical barriers to understanding the world soul, both by exploring the concept in its various historical incarnations and by calling attention to some of the ways in which the concept still resonates in contemporary theories.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
James Wilberding is Professor of Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. His main areas of research concern Plato and the history of Platonism, especially in its intersection with medicine and the natural sciences. His publications include Forms, Souls and Embryos: Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction (Routledge, 2016) and Plotinus' Cosmology (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction, James Wilberding * Chapter 1: The World Soul in the Platonic Tradition, James Wilberding * Chapter 2: The Stoic World Soul and the Theory of Seminal Principles, Ricardo Salles * Reflection: The World Soul and Harmony, Lisa Taub * Chapter 3: 'The Universe is an Animal': The World Soul in Medieval Philosophy, Peter Adamson * Chapter 4: The 'World Soul' in India: Complex Causality and Artful Emergence in 'Sakti' Vedanta, Jessica Frazier * Chapter 5: Glimmers of the World Soul in Kabbalah, Jeremy P. Brown * Chapter 6: The World Soul in the Renaissance, Hiro Hirai * Reflection: The World Soul and Spontaneous Generation, Gideon Manning and James Wilberding * Chapter 7: The World Soul in Early Modern Philosophy, Alison Peterman * Reflection: The World Soul in Henry Purcell's setting of 'Hail, bright Cecilia,' Bryan White * Chapter 8: The Miracle and Mystery of Nature: Romantic Searches for the World Soul, Elizabeth Millán Brusslan * Chapter 9: Nature, Freedom, History: The World Soul in German Idealism, Brady Bowman * Reflection: World Soul and Individual Soul in Psychoanalysis, Alexandrine Schniewind * Chapter 10: The World Soul in American Transcendentalism, Laura Dassow Walls * Reflection: The World Soul and Gaia, J. Baird Callicott * Chapter 11. Contemporary Echoes of the World Soul: Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness, Valia Allori
* Introduction, James Wilberding * Chapter 1: The World Soul in the Platonic Tradition, James Wilberding * Chapter 2: The Stoic World Soul and the Theory of Seminal Principles, Ricardo Salles * Reflection: The World Soul and Harmony, Lisa Taub * Chapter 3: 'The Universe is an Animal': The World Soul in Medieval Philosophy, Peter Adamson * Chapter 4: The 'World Soul' in India: Complex Causality and Artful Emergence in 'Sakti' Vedanta, Jessica Frazier * Chapter 5: Glimmers of the World Soul in Kabbalah, Jeremy P. Brown * Chapter 6: The World Soul in the Renaissance, Hiro Hirai * Reflection: The World Soul and Spontaneous Generation, Gideon Manning and James Wilberding * Chapter 7: The World Soul in Early Modern Philosophy, Alison Peterman * Reflection: The World Soul in Henry Purcell's setting of 'Hail, bright Cecilia,' Bryan White * Chapter 8: The Miracle and Mystery of Nature: Romantic Searches for the World Soul, Elizabeth Millán Brusslan * Chapter 9: Nature, Freedom, History: The World Soul in German Idealism, Brady Bowman * Reflection: World Soul and Individual Soul in Psychoanalysis, Alexandrine Schniewind * Chapter 10: The World Soul in American Transcendentalism, Laura Dassow Walls * Reflection: The World Soul and Gaia, J. Baird Callicott * Chapter 11. Contemporary Echoes of the World Soul: Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness, Valia Allori
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