A Cultural History of the Soul : : Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present / / Kocku von Stuckrad.
The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere in popular culture—from holistic therapies and new spiritual practices to literature and film to ecological and politica...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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 Consciousness, 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