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

Author: Richard Tarnas Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, History, Non Fiction, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780345368096 0345368096

"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' & the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay & 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 & 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 & already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume. Similar books: The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant The Great Chain of Being by Arthur O. Lovejoy Man and Technics by Oswald Spengler A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton The New Science by Giambattista Vico The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin History of Philosophy by Julian Marias A History of Freedom of Thought by J. B. Bury The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Kenny Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant A History of Philosophy by Frederick Charles Copleston The Meaning of Things by A. C. Grayling The Discovery of the Mind by Bruno Snell Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault Happiness by Darrin M. McMahon Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti Nietzsche by Walter Arnold Kaufmann