Download or read book Monism written by T. Weir and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.