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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View

By Richard Tarnas

Book information

Publisher
Ballantine Books
Year
1993
ISBN
0345368096, 9780345368096
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
652 kB (667636 bytes)
Pages
560\0
Time added
2013-12-28 09:32:52

Description

"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 FacesHere 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.

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