Preface
Chapter 1: Shaping an idea of (the) soul
Chapter 2: Modern soul
Chapter 3: Western ideas of the soul – history
Chapter 4: Western ideas of the soul – psychology
Chapter 5: Soul in belief systems around the world
Chapter 6: Realising soul talk
References
Index
Biography
Roger Smith is Emeritus Reader in History of Science, Lancaster University, UK, and Honorary Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, UK. He took early retirement from Lancaster in 1998 and then lived in Moscow, Russia, where he was an Honorary Researcher of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has published academic books in the history of science, and edited others, on topics related to the history of mind-brain and the intellectual history of human nature and the human sciences. He has also published books for wider audiences, including with Routledge (2023), Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience.
‘An outstanding and thought-provoking synthesis of the lives and fortunes of the "soul" and of "soul-talk" that cannot fail to stimulate a wide range of readers’
Peter Barham, Psychologist and Historian, author of At the Heart of a Mad Movement, Routledge
