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Passion of the Western Mind

Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

By Richard Tarnas

By Richard Tarnas

By Richard Tarnas

By Richard Tarnas

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Category: Philosophy

Category: Philosophy

Paperback $22.00

Mar 16, 1993 | ISBN 9780345368096

Ebook $14.99

Oct 19, 2011 | ISBN 9780307804525

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    About Passion of the Western Mind

    "[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."
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    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.

    About Passion of the Western Mind

    "[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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    About Richard Tarnas

    Richard Tarnas is a Harvard-educated historian and professor of philosophy and psychology, and the author of The Passion of the Western Mind. In 2006 he published Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, which received the Book of the… More about Richard Tarnas

    About Richard Tarnas

    Richard Tarnas is a Harvard-educated historian and professor of philosophy and psychology, and the author of The Passion of the Western Mind. In 2006 he published Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, which received the Book of the… More about Richard Tarnas

    Product Details

    Category: Philosophy

    Paperback | $22.00
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Mar 16, 1993 | 560 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780345368096

    Category: Philosophy

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Oct 19, 2011 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9780307804525
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    “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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