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It's hard to find a person who says that the soul doesn't exist. It is even harder to find someone who can explain what the soul is. Does the soul live after a person dies? Are we born with a soul or do we form it during our lives? Perhaps the soul is a fiction, a kind of metaphor? These are the questions that prominent thinkers have asked.

In order to grasp such a mysterious phenomenon as the soul, Norwegian philosopher and researcher Ole Martin Gjostad studies the history of the soul in detail, analysing it from different perspectives - historical, literary, philosophical, psychological and biological, which gives the reader the opportunity to get acquainted with the interpretations of the soul for almost three millennia - from antiquity to modernity, as well as with the understanding of the soul in Islam and Buddhism. "The Soul. Search, History, Culture" provides a lot of food for interesting conclusions and encourages reflection, which is extremely important in our time, when the external displaces the internal.

For a wide range of readers.