The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity

Raymond Martin and John Barresi

Paper, 400 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13745-4
$22.95 / £13.95

July, 2006
Cloth, 400 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13744-7
$32.00 / £19.00

Introduction

1. From Myth to Science

2. Individualism and Subjectivity

3. People of the Book

4. Resurrected Self

5. The Stream Divides

6. Aristotelian Synthesis

7. Care of the Soul

8. Mechanization of Nature

9. Naturalizing the Soul

10. Philosophy of Spirit

11. Science of Human Nature

12. Before the Fall

13. Paradise Lost

14. Everything That Happened and What It Means

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

About the Author

Raymond Martin is professor and chair of the department of philosophy at Union College. He is the author of several books, including Self-Concern: An Experiential Approach to What Matters in Survival. John Barresi is retired professor of psychology and philosophy at Dalhousie University and the coauthor (with Raymond Martin) of Naturalization of the Soul: Self and Personal Identity in the Eighteenth Century.

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