Anima Mundi: The Rise of the World Soul Theory in Modern German Philosophy

1. Introduction
Miklós Vassányi

2. Presentation of the Texts Relevant for the Concept of ananima mundi. The Immediate Natural Theological Setting of the Problem
Miklós Vassányi

3. The Distinctive Philosophical Content of the Concept of an “anima mundi” in Leibniz and His Followers. Arguments of This School Against the General Theory of anima mundi. A Broader Natural Philosophical and Metaphysical Discussion of Their Answer Positions
Miklós Vassányi

4. Preliminary Historical and Conceptual Presentation of “L’Histoire Naturelle” in Selected Major Works of some Leading Naturalists. The Relation of Natural Science to Theology or Spirituality in their Works
Miklós Vassányi

5. General Philosophical Analysis of Physico-Theology
Miklós Vassányi

6. Böhme’s Speculative Theology (De signatura rerum, 1622). Ötinger’s Cabbalistic Theory of the World as a Glorious Divine Epiphany or Sh

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khinā; and his Problematic Rejection of the Concept of Weltseele (Offentliches Denckmahl der Lehrtafel einer … Prinzessin Antonia, 1763)
Miklós Vassányi

7. The Philosophical Incompatibility of Spinoza’s System with the World Soul Theory. Bayle’s Identification of Spinozism with the World Soul Theory, and Wachter’s Denial of the Same. Lessing’s Statement Concerning the World Soul, and His Alleged Spinozism in Jacobi’s Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza (11785), Mendelssohn’s Morgenstunden (1785), and Herder’s Gott. Einige Gespräche (1787). Herder’s Rejection of the Identification of God with the Weltseele

Miklós Vassányi

8. The World Soul in Giordano Bruno’s De la causa, principio et uno (1584) and De l’infinito, universo e mondi (1584). The Revival of Bruno’s Philosophy in Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth-Century German Thought
Miklós Vassányi

9. The World Soul in Baader’s and Schelling’s Conceptions
Miklós Vassányi

Keywords: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Nature, Metaphysics, History of Science