Naturalization of the Soul
Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It fills an important gap in intellectual history by being the first book to emphasize the enormous intellectual transformation in the eighteenth century, when the religious ''soul'' was replaced first by a philosophical ''self'' and then by a scientific ''mind''. The a...
Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It fills an important gap in intellectual history by being the first book to emphasize the enormous intellectual transformation in the eighteenth century, when the religious ''soul'' was replaced first by a philosophical ''self'' and then by a scientific ''mind''. The a...
