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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View Soft cover - 1993
by Tarnas, Richard
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- Title The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
- Author Tarnas, Richard
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, U.S.A.
- Date 1993
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 006193
- ISBN 9780345368096 / 0345368096
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Civilization, Western, Philosophy - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code 190
Summary
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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To approach what was distinctive in a vision as complex and protean as that of the Greeks, let us begin by examining one of its most striking characteristics-a sustained, highly diversified tendency to interpret the world in terms of archetypal principles.
From the jacket flap
"[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.
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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- Publishers Weekly, 03/15/1993, Page 0