Paul Ham on the soul
Next date: Wednesday, 21 August 2024 | 03:00 PM
to 04:00 PM
Acclaimed historian Paul Ham is a formerSunday Times correspondent, with a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics. With his latest book, he explores the driving force in human history: the relationship between the soul and the mind.
Almost everyone thinks they have a soul, but nobody knows what it is. For thousands of years it was an ‘organ’, something that was part of all of us and survived the death of the body. The soul could be saved, condemned, tortured, bought. Then, mysteriously, it disappeared.
The Enlightenment called it the ‘mind’. And today, neuroscientists demonstrate that the mind is the creation of the brain. The ‘religious soul’ lives on, in the minds of the faithful, while the secular ‘soul’ means whatever you want it to mean.
In The Soul: A History of the Human Mind critically acclaimed historian Paul Ham explores the idea of the soul and shows how these beliefs have animated and driven the history of humankind.
Paul Ham is the author of 12 books, including Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth (2016), 1914: The Year the World Ended (2013), Hiroshima Nagasaki (2011), Vietnam: The Australian War (2007) and Kokoda (2004).
Passchendaele won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction. Hiroshima Nagasakiwas shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for History and is being made into a 6-part TV series by an American-British-Australian production team. Vietnam won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Australian History and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award (2008). Kokoda was shortlisted for the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction and the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
When
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Wednesday, 21 August 2024 | 03:00 PM
- 04:00 PM
Location
Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Hwy, Gordon, 2072, View Map
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799 Pacific Hwy ,
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Gordon Library
799 Pacific Hwy ,
Gordon 2072
Paul Ham on the soul