What is Soul?

by Wolfgang Giegerich

Rooted in the metaphysics of bygone times, the notion of soul in our Western tradition is packed with associations and meanings that are incompatible with the anthropological and naturalistic thinking that prevails in modernity. Whereas treatises of old conceived of the soul as an infinite, immaterial substance which was the ground of man's hope for eternal salvation, modern psychology has for the most part discarded the concept in favor of more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367477181
• ISBN13: 9780367477189
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"