![]() ![]() “I revelled in the intellectual pleasure and stimulation it gave me from beginning to end. “This is the most creative and comprehensive treatment of the history of Western thought I know.… The book is a real masterpiece.”Īuthor of Realms of the Human Unconscious and Beyond the Brain Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Prince of Our Disorder and The Alchemy of Survival Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School ![]() It not only places the history of Western thought in perspective, but derives new insights concerning the evolution of our thinking and the future of the whole human enterprise.” “THE BEST HISTORY OF WESTERN THOUGHT I HAVE READ.… MASTERFUL.”īaruch College, City University of New York The writing is elegant and carries the reader with the momentum of a novel. "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. 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." Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. "Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. ![]()
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