Monism: Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview

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.

Author: T. Weir
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/26/2012
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230113732

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.