This well-researched study traces the materialist hypothesis that all existence is an unbroken, material continuum from its origins in ancient Greece to modern times. Starting with Lucretius' great first-century-BC poem, "The Nature of Things", it proceeds through Enlightenment materialism and Paul d'Holbach's masterpiece, "The System of Nature", to 19th century materialism and Ludwig Buechner's epochal "Force and Matter". It concludes by examining the 20th century literature of mind-brain materialism. Addressed to specialists and general readers alike, Vitzthum's interdisciplinary approach avoids technical jargon as it critically reviews the premises and literature of materialism from philosophical, historical, scientific, and literary perspectives.
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The history of Western philosophy has generated powerful and influential theories about the nature of the world and humankind's place in it. Since the ancient Greeks, the compelling search for the fundamentals of all existence has led some to espouse philosophical idealism (a belief in unchanging conceptual universals), while others have held to an equally immutable (irreducible) physical materialism. For centuries the tension between these views of the world has stimulated intense philosophical inquiry. Today the debate remains as lively as every. -- Midwest Book Review
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