The history of the soul from antiquity to the present

What is the benefit of a person if he acquires the whole world,
will it harm his soul? Or what ransom will a person give for his soul?
The Gospel of Matthew, 16.26

There is no need to free himself from the heart and renounce
from one of the oldest and worthy respect for hypotheses.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people believe that they have a soul, but few can explain what it is.

We can talk about a pure and honest soul, deep and noble, as well as about sinful and insidious. But what is this: figurative expressions, metaphors, or the soul denotes something real and represents a special dimension in a person, along with mind and feelings. Is there a soul of something given, innate, or was it invented? Maybe it does not exist at all, and this is a fiction, artificial structure? Maybe she is generally outdated?

About this a new book of the Norwegian philosopher Ole Martin Hystad, known to the Russian reader on the book "History of the Heart in World Culture". Hystad explores the development of the soul development for three millennia from antiquity to the present in the Western world, in Russian culture, in Buddhism and Islam and comes to interesting conclusions that give us the ground for thought