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T. Weir 
Monism 
Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview

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The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements between the 1840s and 1940s.
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The Riddles of Monism: An Introductory Essay; T.H.Weir Proto-monism in German Philosophy, Theology, and Science, 1800 to 1845; F.Gregory Alexander von Humboldt and Monism; N.Rupke Monism and Suffering: A Theosophical Perspective; G.Viswanathan Spinozist Monism: Perspectives from within and without the Monist Movement; T.Matysik Monism and Morphology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; S.Gliboff Monist Philosophy of Science: Between Worldview and Scientific Meta-reflection; P.Ziche Monism in Britain: Biologists and the Rationalist Press Association; P.J.Bowler Between Hegel and Haeckel: Monistic Worldview, Marxist Philosophy and Biomedicine in Russia and the Soviet Union; I.J.Polianski Monism, Racial Hygiene, and National Socialism; H.Fangerau

About the author

Todd H. Weir is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen’s University Belfast. His research is currently focused on the relationships between religious dissent, anticlericalism, popular science and radical politics in modern Germany. He has been a Fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies and Visiting Scholar at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. He is currently completing a monograph entitled The Fourth Confession: Organized Secularism in Nineteenth Century Berlin.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 258 ● ISBN 9781137011749 ● File size 2.0 MB ● Editor T. Weir ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4992190 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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