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Passion of the Western Mind

Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

Richard Tarnas

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Ballantine US
01 January 1994
"""[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....

Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time."" SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume."

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Imprint:   Ballantine US
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 232mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 31mm
Weight:   595g
ISBN:   9780345368096
ISBN 10:   0345368096
Pages:   544
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

No other such overview provides, in equal compass, as clear and cogent a survey. Its scholarship is impeccable....For its length it is the best intellectual history of the West I have ever seen. --Huston Smith, Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley The most lucid and concise presentation I have read of the grand lines of what every student should know about the history of Western thought.--Joseph Campbell


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