All Things Are Full of Gods

All Things Are Full of Gods is a 2024 book by philosopher and religious studies scholar David Bentley Hart published by Yale University Press. Its central animating question relates to whether consciousness or matter is ontologically primary — that is, whether mental acts such as memory, intention, and apprehension are reducible to material causes, or whether consciousness precedes or gives rise to material phenomena. Written in the style of a Platonic dialogue among the gods Psyche, Hephaestus, Eros, and Hermes, the book is a dialectic rebuke against the mechanical view of nature that has been ascendent in the West since the Scientific Revolution, and which Hart associates with nihilism and disenchantment. The book's title derives from a statement by the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Thales.