الوصف
World experts provide a survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism. They demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements of the century between the 1840s and 1940s. TODD H. WEIR is a 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' . TODD WEIR Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. This groundbreaking collection of essays casts light on the long shadow of naturalistic monism in modern thought and culture. It argues that when the philosophical proposition of the unity of all matter and thought a single, universal substance fused with scientific empiricism and Darwinism in the mid-nineteenth century, it led to the formation of a powerful worldview. Compelling essays by leading international scholars investigate the articulation of monism in science, philosophy, and religion and its impact on range of social movements from socialism and early feminism to imperialism and eugenics. Monism: Science, Philosophy, Religion and the History of a Worldview provides a broad and comprehensive chronological, disciplinary and geographic map of a century of monism, while at the same time showing innovative new directions in the interdisciplinary study of the modern intersections of science, religion, philosophy and culture. World experts provide a first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism. At the same time, they demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements of the century between the 1840s and 1940s.