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The End of the Soul : Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France by Jennifer Hecht, Jennifer Michael Hecht is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, joined together to form the Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. With this group as its focus, __The End of the Soul__ is a study of science and atheism in France in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows that anthropology grew out of a struggle between tradition (especially Catholicism) and modernism, and that it became for many a secular religion, with such adherents as Emile Zola, Margaret Sanger, and Arthur Conan Doyle. On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of individuals. This strange scientific pact, and indeed what we have come to think of as anthropology, which the group's members helped to develop, had its genesis in aggressive, evangelical atheism. With this group as its focus, __The End of the Soul__ is a study of s
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- Author
- Jennifer Hecht, Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231502382
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Science, History