Spirit and Soul: Essays in Philosophical Psychology

In a clear and vivid manner, EDWARD S. CASEY, one of America’s finest thinkers, takes up the great themes of imagination, remembering, perceiving, and place. A brilliant and useful account of basic philosophical problems, which are also major mysteries of the soul. Casey asks, How are we to join—or to rejoin, or to see as already conjoined—spirit and soul? For Casey, spirit and soul are “held together ... above all, by the images that imagining and remembering share.” First published in 1991 and expanded in 2004, this revised edition adds a comprehensive bibliography. “For Casey, philosophy itself would not be possible without the imagination. Like emotion, imagination is ‘a spontaneously unifying factor in human experience, first linking body with soul ...