Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 326 pages)
ISBN:
9780231553575
Content:
This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements.
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Crisis of the Soul in the Twentieth Century -- Part I: The Soul in Its Cultural Setting Between 1870 and 1930 -- 1. Nature Research, Psychology, and Occultism in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Fascination with the Soul in Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Science -- 3. The Mobilization of the Soul in Political and Nationalistic Settings -- 4. Carl Gustav Jung: Psychology as a Comprehensive Empirical Science of the Soul -- 5. Occultism, the Natural Sciences, and Spirituality Before 1930 -- Part II: From Europe to America and Back: The Soul Goes Mainstream -- 6. Transpersonal Psychology: The Soul's Cosmic Potential -- 7. The Renaissance of Naturphilosophie: Quantum Mysticism, Cosmic Con-sciousness, and the Planetary Soul -- 8. The Soul as the Lodestar of New Spiritual Practices -- 9. The Soul as a Central Motif in Literature and Film -- 10. Ecological Movements, Scientific Aesthetics, and the Sacralization of the Earth -- Epilogue: A Cultural Studies Soul Retrieval -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231200363
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231200270
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966 - A cultural history of the soul New York : Columbia University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780231200363
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231200370
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
;
Nordamerika
;
Seele
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1870-
Author information:
Stuckrad, Kocku von 1966-
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