Anima mundi : the rise of the world soul theory in modern German philosophy / Miklós Vassányi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vassányi, Miklós.

Series:

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 202.

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soul.

Ontology.

Neoplatonism.

Philosophy, German--19th century.

Philosophy, German.

Physical Description:

xv, 434 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; London ; New York : Springer, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction. The concept of the soul of the world of Plato ; The concept of the soul of the world of Plotinus ; The major difference between the Classical and early modern conceptions of the world soul ; The chief objective and the structural outline of the enquiry ; Thematic limitations and terminology

Opposition to the identification of the world soul with God in the Philosophia Leibnitio-Wolffiana : the theory of God as the "ens extramundanum". Presentation of the texts relevant for the concept of an anima mundi : the immediate natural theological setting of the problem ; The distinctive philosophical content of the concept of an "anima mundi" in Leibniz and his followers : arguments of this school against the general theory of anima mundi : a broader natural philosophical and metaphysical discussion of their answer positions

"Les Naturalistes" : eighteenth-century physico-theology : the scientific demonstration of the existence and attributes of God from the teleology of nature : the world soul theory in physico-theology : physico-theology as a source of inspiration for the early German romantics. Preliminary historical and conceptual presentation of "L'Histoire naturelle" in selected major works of some leading naturalists : the relation of natural science to theology or spirituality in their works ; General philosophical analysis of physico-theology

Gradual rise of the concept of a world soul in the "Lessingzeit" : philosophical Cabbala, Spinozism and mysticism : Böhme and Ötinger : Spinoza, Lessing and the Pantheismus-Streit : Giordano Bruno's Influence in the epoch. Böhme's speculative theology (De signatura rerum, 1622) : Ötinger's Cabbalistic theory of the world as a glorious divine epiphany of Shekhinā : an his problematic rejection of the concept of Weltseele (Offentliches Denckmahl der Lehrtafel einer- Prinzessin Antonia, 1763) ; The philosophical incompatibility of Spinoza's system with the world soul theory : Bayle's identification of Spinozism with the world soul theory, and Wachter's denial of the same : Lessing's statement concerning the world soul, and his alleged Spinozism in Jacobi's Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza (1785), Mendelssohn's Morgenstunden (1785), and Herder's Gott : Einige Gespräche (1787), Herder's rejection of the identification of God with the Weltseele ; The world soul in Giordano Bruno's De la causa, principio et uno (1584) and De l'infinito, universo e mondi (1584) : the revival of Bruno's philosophy in late eighteenth to early nineteenth-century German thought

The philosophical postulation of the world soul in early German Romanticism. The world soul in Baader's and Schelling's conceptions.

Notes:

Revised: Thesis--Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789048187959

9048187958

9789048187966

9048187966

OCLC:

645706866