World Soul A History

James Wilberding is Professor of Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. His main areas of research concern Plato and the history of Platonism, especially in its intersection with medicine and the natural sciences. His publications include Forms, Souls and Embryos: Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction (Routledge, 2016) and Plotinus' Cosmology (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Introduction, James Wilberding

Chapter 1: The World Soul in the Platonic Tradition, James Wilberding

Chapter 2: The Stoic World Soul and the Theory of Seminal Principles, Ricardo Salles

Reflection: The World Soul and Harmony, Lisa Taub

Chapter 3: 'The Universe is an Animal': The World Soul in Medieval Philosophy, Peter Adamson

Chapter 4: The 'World Soul' in India: Complex Causality and Artful Emergence in 'Sakti' Vedanta, Jessica Frazier

Chapter 5: Glimmers of the World Soul in Kabbalah, Jeremy P. Brown

Chapter 6: The World Soul in the Renaissance, Hiro Hirai

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

Chapter 7: The World Soul in Early Modern Philosophy, Alison Peterman

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

Chapter 8: The Miracle and Mystery of Nature: Romantic Searches for the World Soul, Elizabeth Mill?n Brusslan

Chapter 9: Nature, Freedom, History: The World Soul in German Idealism, Brady Bowman

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

Chapter 10: The World Soul in American Transcendentalism, Laura Dassow Walls

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

Chapter 11. Contemporary Echoes of the World Soul: Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness, Valia Allori