Description: A multidisciplinary collection of essays that seek to reclaim the concept of the soul from academic neglect, not as a dualistic hypothesis but as the vital centre of human selfhood.
Review Quotes: These exacting essays variously suggest that the apparently problematic category of the soul nonetheless secures the reality of mind without reduction, and without a dualistic contrast to body and matter. Both body and mind live, and it is the living force of the soul which combines them in growth, motion and reflection.--Catherine Pickstock, Professor of Metaphysics and Poetics, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge