The Unending Search for the Soul

Elusive

In a brilliant new book, George Makari charts the ways Western thinkers have wrestled with questions of how the human mind is related to the material world.

Published Nov. 2 2015 12:01AM EST

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In 2008, George Makari’s Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis described how Sigmund Freud reconfigured elements of 19th century neurology, philosophy, medicine, and psychology into a adventurous body of work and an ambitious intellectual movement.

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Michael S. Roth

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The Unending Search for the Soul

In a brilliant new book, George Makari charts the ways Western thinkers have wrestled with questions of how the human mind is related to the material world.

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Michael S. Roth