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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas (Author)

The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas (Author)

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ISBN: 9780345368096

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books, March 16, 1993

Paperback, 560 pages

"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. The writing is elegant and carries the reader with the momentum of a novel... It is really a noble performance."
--Joseph Campbell, 
author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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 WESTERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.