World soul : a history / edited by James Wilberding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilberding, James, editor.

Series:

Oxford philosophical concepts.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford philosophical concepts

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soul--History.

Soul.

Cosmology.

Panpsychism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 388 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / James Wilberding

The World Soul in the Platonic Tradition / James Wilberding

The Stoic World Soul and the Theory of Seminal Principles / Ricardo Salles

Reflection: The World Soul and Harmony / Lisa Taub

'The Universe is an Animal': The World Soul in Medieval Philosophy / Peter Adamson

The 'World Soul' in India: Complex Causality and Artful Emergence in 'Sakti' Vedanta / Jessica Frazier

Glimmers of the World Soul in Kabbalah / Jeremy P. Brown

The World Soul in the Renaissance / Hiro Hirai

Reflection: The World Soul and Spontaneous Generation / Gideon Manning and James Wilberding

The World Soul in Early Modern Philosophy / Alison Peterman

Reflection: The World Soul in Henry Purcell's setting of 'Hail, bright Cecilia' / Bryan White

The Miracle and Mystery of Nature : Romantic Searches for the World Soul / Elizabeth Millán Brusslan

Nature, Freedom, History: The World Soul in German Idealism / Brady Bowman

Reflection: World Soul and Individual Soul in Psychoanalysis / Alexandrine Schniewind

The World Soul in American Transcendentalism / Laura Dassow Walls

Reflection: The World Soul and Gaia / J. Baird Callicott

Contemporary Echoes of the World Soul: Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness / Valia Allori.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-091345-2

0-19-091347-9

OCLC:

1233024195