All is One: Holistic Knowledge Ideals and Controversies from Fin de siècle to the Anthropocene

Project: Research

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Description

My current research investigates the relationship between knowledge, ideology, and spirituality through the conceptual history of "holism"; a concept that has travelled between several disciplines since it was coined by South African statesman and botanist Jan Smuts in 1926.

Popular science description

My current research investigates the relationship between knowledge, ideology, and spirituality through the conceptual history of "holism"; a concept that has travelled between several disciplines since it was coined by South African statesman and botanist Jan Smuts in 1926.
Short titleAll is One
StatusActive
Effective start/end date2023/09/01 → 2025/08/31

UKÄ subject classification

  • History of Ideas

Free keywords

  • Jan Smuts
  • Holism
  • Organicism
  • Knowledge ideals
  • Contested concepts
  • Alternative medicine
  • Gestalt theory
  • Ecologism

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